{"id":2337,"date":"2020-09-05T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2020-09-05T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T17:54:15","slug":"painting-and-georgia-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2337","title":{"rendered":"painting and &#8216;Georgia on my mind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/house.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>photo by Joe (the painter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While &#8220;Mar-a-lago Donald&#8221; and the &#8220;Scranton working class kid Joe&#8221; (cough) pull out all the stops trying to pander to the &#8220;average Joe&#8217;s and Jane&#8217;s&#8221; out there, I just finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/making-a-living\">painting part of this porch<\/a> on, of all places, &#8220;Main St.&#8221; in Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 4,500).  Populist? With a capital &#8220;P.&#8221;!  What&#8217;s more, during my coffee break, I set up putting a public notice ($92) in the <em><strong>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/strong><\/em>, a statewide newspaper.  It will run Labor Day.  How&#8217;s that for strategy?  (A lot of people will be off that day with more time to read the paper.)  This is part of the criteria the Georgia Attorney General&#8217;s Office has set up to meet <em>part<\/em> of the requirement for them to count your write-in votes.  While 92 bucks would have been nothing to the Biden and Trump campaigns, for us, well, let&#8217;s just say we felt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While &#8220;Mar-a-lago Donald&#8221; and the &#8220;Scranton working class kid Joe&#8221; (cough) pull out all the stops trying to pander to the &#8220;average Joe&#8217;s and Jane&#8217;s&#8221; out there, I just finished painting part of this porch on, of all places, &#8220;Main <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2337\"><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-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","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=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}