{"id":2958,"date":"2024-11-06T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2024-11-06T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T17:41:05","slug":"catching-up-and-go-franciscan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2958","title":{"rendered":"Catching up; and: GO FRANCISCAN!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/greenhorn.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenhorn Restaurant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catching up on the last few weeks&#8230; In between painting this restaurant, I wrote a story about a local couple who regularly goes to The Honduras to help the rural poor there.  Concurrently, I reported on a group of local guys who went to western North Carolina with Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, to help people in mountain communities there who had been devastated by flooding from Hurrican Helene.  I also wrote about a Community Oriented Policing officer here who regularly interfaces with the community in the most creative of ways.  Then there was a story about a local home furnishings thrift store that just celebrated it&#8217;s one year anniversary and is going a <em>long<\/em> way toward helping people in these inflationary times.  While doing all this, and more, I&#8217;ve been following my son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/jonathan\">Jonathan&#8217;<\/a>s soccer team (Franciscan University) on their march to winning the conference.  I&#8217;ve watched a number of livestream games, but I am going to cut this short to hop in the car to travel across the state to watch his playoff matches.  &#8220;GO FRANCISCAN!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenhorn Restaurant Catching up on the last few weeks&#8230; In between painting this restaurant, I wrote a story about a local couple who regularly goes to The Honduras to help the rural poor there. Concurrently, I reported on a group <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2958\"><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-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","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=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}