{"id":2360,"date":"2020-09-20T01:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2020-09-20T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T01:21:16","slug":"volunteering-with-an-exponent-of-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"volunteering, with an exponent of 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1-385x300.jpg 385w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/pantry-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>ONU Religious Life students   &#8230;photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent some time covering a special event this morning.  Students from <strong>Ohio Northern University&#8217;s &#8220;Religious Life Organization&#8221;<\/strong> coordinated a Food Drive to help the local <strong>Food Pantry.<\/strong>  One of the coordinators told me that the students heard the <strong>Food Pantry&#8217;s<\/strong> resources were thin because of the increased demand with the pandemic affecting some people financially.  So why not help?  And they did.  <strong>Note: <\/strong> As president, I would try to inspire this type of local volunteering\/giving, with an exponent of 25, at least.  And our family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joe-the-volunteer\">practices what we preach with this.<\/a>  You have to wonder:  Would Trump or Biden&#8217;s family do what we&#8217;ve done (click on link)?  Probably not.  Yet it is an essential key to <em>really<\/em> turning this country around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time covering a special event this morning. Students from Ohio Northern University&#8217;s &#8220;Religious Life Organization&#8221; coordinated a Food Drive to help the local Food Pantry. One of the coordinators told me that the students heard the Food <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2360\"><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-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","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=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}