{"id":554,"date":"2010-11-17T01:34:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=554"},"modified":"2010-11-17T01:34:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:34:01","slug":"got-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Got Monks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed south through North Carolina on Rte. 77, stopping in Statesville, Mooresville, \u00a0Huntersville and Charlotte. \u00a0 We then started to head southwest, stopping in Belmont, North Carolina. \u00a0 Belmont is the home of Belmont Abbey College. \u00a0 The kids and I walked about campus, finally stopping in &#8220;Holy Grounds Coffee Shop.&#8221; \u00a0 At a table of about eight students, I approached and said: \u00a0 &#8220;I know this is going to be coming, oh, a bit out of the blue, but I&#8217;m running for president as an independent candidate.&#8221; \u00a0 They let out variations of a collective: \u00a0 &#8220;Cool!&#8221; \u00a0 I passed out some campaign cards, then got some coffee. \u00a0 I mean, how many times are you going to get a chance to try some &#8220;holy grounds.&#8221; \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 There is also a rather big Abbey on the grounds of the college. \u00a0 A bumper sticker on a car in the parking lot read: \u00a0 &#8220;Got Monks?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed south through North Carolina on Rte. 77, stopping in Statesville, Mooresville, \u00a0Huntersville and Charlotte. \u00a0 We then started to head southwest, stopping in Belmont, North Carolina. \u00a0 Belmont is the home of Belmont Abbey College. \u00a0 The kids <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=554\"><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-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","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=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}