{"id":369,"date":"2005-10-20T11:52:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T11:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=369"},"modified":"2005-10-20T11:52:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T11:52:13","slug":"101705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"10\/17\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed north to Montpelier, Ohio where local historian Alan Benjamin told me that Montpelierite Paul Siple was chosen by Admiral Bryd to be the &#8220;one Boy Scout in America (out of a nationwide selection)&#8221; to accompany him on his famous South Pole expedition in 1928.  Perhaps of even more note, Benjamin told me Paul Siple went on to develop the first formulat to measure &#8220;wind chill.&#8221;  Benjamin also told me that in 2003, Montpelier, Ohio was voted as having the &#8220;best tasting tap water in America.&#8221;  They&#8217;ve since bottled some, more as a novelty, and display it at the Chamber of Commerce.  I told editor Jason Schumacher of the Montpelier <em>The Leader Enterprise <\/em>newspaper that, while we don&#8217;t pander to anyone, the people of Montpelier could be assured we&#8217;d serve Montpelier bottled tap water at the Inaugaration.  However, I also told the editor that Montpelier&#8217;s Rowe&#8217;s Recreation Restaurant&#8217;s &#8220;Road Kill Omelette&#8221; might not be on that menu that day.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Just after Hurricane Katrina, Montpelier adopted the &#8220;sister village&#8221; of Montpelier, LA, which is 60 miles north of New Orleans and received some flooding.  I interviewed Marlene Oxender, whose husband drove down to Montpelier, LA the week before with a check for $1,300 and a truck load of food (including Montpelier bottled tap water, of course), clothing, and so on to help their &#8220;sister village&#8221; with recovery efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed north to Montpelier, Ohio where local historian Alan Benjamin told me that Montpelierite Paul Siple was chosen by Admiral Bryd to be the &#8220;one Boy Scout in America (out of a nationwide selection)&#8221; to accompany him on his <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=369\"><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-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}