{"id":2529,"date":"2021-08-04T03:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2021-08-04T03:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T03:40:27","slug":"2529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo-718x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/card-photo.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I should have written on the card:  <strong>&#8220;I need a ride to the White House.&#8221;<\/strong>  Too late, I&#8217;m now a couple hundred miles from Mt. Eaton, Ohio.  Mt. Eaton is Amish country.  And we have spent a lot of time studying the Amish culture as we&#8217;ve traveled.  Far from nostalgically &#8220;antiquated,&#8221; The Amish\/Mennonites may have a much saner take on society &#8212; and how God wants us to live within the context of society&#8230;.  I covered a village council meeting tonight that focused on an upcoming village festival; a pit bull biting a one-year-old; fire hydrant replacement at a nearby university; and the other activities of the local Public Works crew.  This is democracy at a grassroots level.  Our campaign talks about shifting much more power to local government where they are intimately familiar with their needs, their issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have written on the card: &#8220;I need a ride to the White House.&#8221; Too late, I&#8217;m now a couple hundred miles from Mt. Eaton, Ohio. Mt. Eaton is Amish country. And we have spent a lot of time <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2529\"><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-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","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=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}