{"id":466,"date":"2006-03-28T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-03-28T13:17:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:17:57","slug":"32806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"3\/28\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Chuck Carter in Sand City, California yesterday.  He ran for the House of Representatives three times in the 17th District here.  He ran as a Republican in a heavily liberal (Santa Cruz is in the District) area.  He, understandably, lost three times.  His campaign slogan:  <strong>&#8220;More Chuck and Less Pork.&#8221; <\/strong> But it wasn&#8217;t enough to go with the slogan.  He and his wife also got a pet, 20 lb baby pig that they would bring with them everywhere (on a leash no less, and it did tricks).  The pig even slept with them.  &#8220;It was kind of cudly,&#8221; Chuch smiled &#8212; although I noticed Mrs. Carter wasn&#8217;t smiling as much&#8230;  Back in the campaign vehicle, my wife (and campaign manager) Liz &#8212; who would never go for the pig &#8212; said we should try and come up with some &#8220;fun&#8221; angle for the campaign like the Carters did.  Her initial suggestion was to put a megaphone atop the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; mobile and play the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; theme song as we passed through towns.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  To hear the &#8220;average Joe&#8221; theme song, go to the bottom right hand section of the home page and click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Chuck Carter in Sand City, California yesterday. He ran for the House of Representatives three times in the 17th District here. He ran as a Republican in a heavily liberal (Santa Cruz is in the District) area. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=466\"><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-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}