{"id":2380,"date":"2020-10-11T00:32:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2020-10-11T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:32:38","slug":"getting-into-the-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"getting into the &#8220;trades&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apollo-photo-1000x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apollo-photo-1000x1024.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apollo-photo-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apollo-photo-768x786.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/apollo-photo.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>photo by Joe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While on my <strong>Buckeye Back Roads Tour<\/strong>, I stopped at the <strong>Apollo Career Center Campus<\/strong> today.  Last week I&#8217;d interviewed a man who had graduated from a local high school, but his senior year was spent at Apollo, getting a certificate in welding.  He now has his own welding shop in Cincinnati, specializes in working on classic cars, and teaches welding classes himself at a nearby career center like this.  For high school youth who aren&#8217;t inclined to go to college, but rather to get into the &#8220;trades,&#8221; these kinds of career centers are excellent, and a really good use of a student&#8217;s time their junior\/senior years of high school.  Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/education-c1h9h\">position paper on education<\/a> talks more in-depth about this paradigm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on my Buckeye Back Roads Tour, I stopped at the Apollo Career Center Campus today. Last week I&#8217;d interviewed a man who had graduated from a local high school, but his senior year was spent at Apollo, getting a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2380\"><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-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","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=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}