{"id":326,"date":"2005-08-19T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=320"},"modified":"2005-08-19T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T10:58:25","slug":"81805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"8\/18\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went through Wolf Creek Pass (almost 11,000 ft) on Rte 160 in the Rockies today.  (Our motor home wasn&#8217;t exactly doing top speeds as we approached the summit.  Actually, I had everyone leaning forward, and praying.)  Down the other side of the Pass, we stopped at Monte Vista, Colorado, where we did a corner whistle-stop event at noon.  We got the banner out: <em><strong>&#8220;Average Joe&#8221; for president&#8230; imagine that!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> and passed out flyers to people on the street.  The editor of Monte Vista&#8217;s newspaper asked me why I was running for president.  I told him I believed we had the best platform in regards to where we feel the country needs to go&#8230;  We then drove into Alamosa, Colorado (pop. 8,370).  <strong>Note:  <\/strong>Tonight we took the kids to Alamosa Park for some playground time and a family walk around the track there.  On one of the laps, I saw a Colorado bumper sticker that said:  &#8220;I hike.  Therefore I contemplate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went through Wolf Creek Pass (almost 11,000 ft) on Rte 160 in the Rockies today. (Our motor home wasn&#8217;t exactly doing top speeds as we approached the summit. Actually, I had everyone leaning forward, and praying.) Down the other <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=326\"><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-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}