{"id":618,"date":"2007-03-21T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-03-21T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T18:58:57","slug":"31707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"3\/17\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our recent campaign tour, we stopped in Ashburn, Georgia. \u00a0 Driving into Ashburn, you are greeted with a banner that explains this small town is the home of the “Fire Ant Festival.” \u00a0 A resident told us: \u00a0 “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” \u00a0 In front of the Chamber of Commerce here is a big, red \u00a0metal sculpture of (that’s right): a \u00a0fire ant. \u00a0 It is so<\/em> ominous looking, in fact, that I had a hard time getting our three-year-old Jonathan to pose next to it… While at an Ashburn park playing with the kids later, a couple people approached and said they’d seen us on a television news show recently and wanted an autograph. \u00a0 After signing some flyers, Liz and Sarah ended up joining these people at an informal house gathering up the street. \u00a0 (I stayed behind to throw a football around with Jonathan and Joseph.) Liz spent about a half hour expertly explaining the platform, answering questions… Toward the end, a dentist in the group — who had several times said it is time for a change in politics — asked how we were funded. \u00a0 Liz said we get donations, just like any of the other presidential candidates (only, oh, \u00a0a little bit less). \u00a0 She then said to the dentist: \u00a0 “In fact, why don’t you put your money where your mouth is…” \u00a0 Later Liz recounted the story to me. \u00a0 “I can’t believe you \u00a0said ‘put your money where your mouth is’ to — a dentist<\/em>,” I smiled. \u00a0 “I never even thought of that,” Liz laughed… And so it goes with the “average Joe” fundraisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our recent campaign tour, we stopped in Ashburn, Georgia. \u00a0 Driving into Ashburn, you are greeted with a banner that explains this small town is the home of the “Fire Ant Festival.” \u00a0 A resident told us: \u00a0 “If …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}