{"id":2797,"date":"2023-08-14T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2023-08-14T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T22:04:59","slug":"painting-and-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"Painting and Performing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;joe the painter&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Republican candidates are buzzing about in <strong>Iowa,<\/strong> <strong>New Hampshire,<\/strong> and <strong>South Carolina<\/strong>, I have made a strategic campaign decision to stay in: <strong>Ohio<\/strong>.  Call it a hunch, plus I have to pay for rent.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/making-a-living\">Populace painting.<\/a>  I am currently painting this railing at a local nursing home, while gathering stories to write for the local weekly newspaper.  I just got done interviewing <strong><em>&#8220;The Music Man,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> as he colloquially refers to himself as.  During Covid, even though nursing homes were hardest hit with lockdowns, senior isolation, and the like, he would continue to play at these nursing homes throughout Northwest Ohio.  How?  He got a special amplifier, and went window to window (even in the rain, in the snow&#8230;) doing mini-concerts for &#8220;&#8230;an audience of one.&#8221;  A pretty heartwarming story, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;joe the painter&#8221; While the Republican candidates are buzzing about in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, I have made a strategic campaign decision to stay in: Ohio. Call it a hunch, plus I have to pay for rent. Populace <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2797\"><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-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}