{"id":400,"date":"2005-12-20T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=400"},"modified":"2005-12-20T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T13:41:02","slug":"121705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"12\/17\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief stop in McComb, Ohio, we headed south to Adams County, Ohio, in the foothills of Appalachia.  Adams County is the second poorest county in Ohio.  One thing you notice when you&#8217;re here is a lot of &#8220;Support the Troops&#8221; ribbons, bumper stickers, etc.  At the gym I worked out in was, not a picture(s) of a bodybuilder, but rather: a Marine recruitment poster.  There&#8217;s a big military market here.  With youth stuck in rural poverty loops, with often less of an emphasis (and\/or funding) for education, the military looks like a good option to proportionately more youth here&#8230; I am currently reading a book called <em>The Gospel According to RFK <\/em>about Robert F. Kennedy&#8217;s brief run for the presidency in 1968.  In a campaign speech to some college students, he confronted them about their deferment status, noting those coming from less advantaged rural poverty, or inner city, settings were losing their lives in Vietnam&#8230;  I couldn&#8217;t help but think what a tragic corrolary to now.  That is while there isn&#8217;t currently a draft, the disadvantaged (proportionately so) are still losing their lives overseas in Iraq, while the advantaged (just as proportionately so) continue on at Dartmouth, Auburn, Tennessee State University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief stop in McComb, Ohio, we headed south to Adams County, Ohio, in the foothills of Appalachia. Adams County is the second poorest county in Ohio. One thing you notice when you&#8217;re here is a lot of &#8220;Support <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=400\"><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-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}