{"id":2116,"date":"2020-03-12T13:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:58:35","slug":"jonah-from-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jonah&#8217; from the Midwest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mask-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mask-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mask-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/mask.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Joe&#8217;s mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wearing a mask this week, but it wasn&#8217;t a surgical one &#8212; it was a &#8220;dust mask.&#8221; While Joe Biden, the &#8216;average Joe from Scranton&#8217; (<em>please!<\/em>) was taking the lead in the Primaries, this &#8216;average Joe&#8217; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/making-a-living\">sanding a cedar wood door frame<\/a> at Luke&#8217;s Restaurant in Bluffton.  Populist?  With a capital P!  This kind of work, besides putting food on the table, gives me time to be, well, meditative.  And as I&#8217;m thinking about things, it continually occurs to me that we&#8217;re out of whack as a country (spiritually, and otherwise).  So much so, that we&#8217;re actually experiencing the opening salvo of &#8220;Nineveh Moments,&#8221; it&#8217;s just that, well, most don&#8217;t realize it &#8212; yet.  Stay tuned.  <strong>Note:  <\/strong>Joe Biden has a $1.2 million beach house.  I have a 1972 camper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wearing a mask this week, but it wasn&#8217;t a surgical one &#8212; it was a &#8220;dust mask.&#8221; While Joe Biden, the &#8216;average Joe from Scranton&#8217; (please!) was taking the lead in the Primaries, this &#8216;average Joe&#8217; was sanding <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2116\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}