{"id":314,"date":"2005-08-02T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=308"},"modified":"2005-08-02T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T14:27:18","slug":"8205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"8\/2\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still on Hwy 95, we headed out of Idaho and into a vast corner of Oregon that can be best described as the proverbial: “No Man’s (or Woman’s) Land.” Hwy 95 through here spans some 230 miles and is dotted in four places with, not towns, but rather tiny “outposts.” Fascinatingly enough, in the first outpost: Jordan Valley, we stopped at a small Catholic Church where, wouldn’t you know, Bishop Robert Vasa was vacationing. (He is the Bishop for the Diocese of Baker, Oregon.) We talked late into the night about spirituality and the modern world… Today we headed further into “No Man’s Land,” stopping first in Rome, Oregon, where all there is is a small cafe, a gas pump and an apartment above the place. The mailbox on the other side of Hwy 95 reads: ROME. That’s it. Simply: ROME. I put a flyer on their wall, joked about probably being the only presidential candidate that will stop here this election cycle, or any<\/em> election cycle, then headed on to Burns Junction (pop. a small cluster of trailers). There I met Julaine Wagner, who works in the cafe here and lives in “nearby” (30 miles away), Arock, Oregon. “How do you spell Arock?” I asked. She said: “Like: a rock<\/em>.” Julaine told me her and her husband are also ranchers, and they got married four years ago — on horseback, in December. My son Joseph asked if it was cold. Julaine said it was… (If we don’t carry Rome and Burns Junction this Election, well, I’ll be surprised.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still on Hwy 95, we headed out of Idaho and into a vast corner of Oregon that can be best described as the proverbial: “No Man’s (or Woman’s) Land.” Hwy 95 through here spans some 230 miles and is dotted …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}