{"id":65,"date":"2004-07-19T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-07-19T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T14:39:00","slug":"71504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"7\/15\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont is one of the most &#8220;walking friendly&#8221; states in the nation, with all sorts of &#8220;Yield to Pedestrian&#8221; signs about, including in Burlington, Vermont&#8217;s biggest city and where we headed next.  With people everywhere on the street early this evening and the outdoor cafe tables full, we couldn&#8217;t help but think:  &#8220;Bullhorn Country.&#8221;  So we got out our $3 garage sale bullhorn, and in the tradition of the old-time campaigns, drove about the downtown slowly and told anybody within earshot (range of about 100 ft.):  <strong>&#8220;VOTE JOE, HE&#8217;S THE WAY TO GO!&#8221;<\/strong>  About the third pass through town, we came across a swank cafe, with outside tables filled primarily with couples.  Couples all lost in conversation.  That is, they were lost in conversation until the street light adjacent to them turned red and I trained the bull horn toward them:  <strong>&#8220;VOTE JOE&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> was all I could get out as people at each respective table jumped, upsetting water glasses and the like.  (Our six-year-old Joseph had apparently turned up the volume on the bullhorn before handing it to me.)  And there went a few votes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont is one of the most &#8220;walking friendly&#8221; states in the nation, with all sorts of &#8220;Yield to Pedestrian&#8221; signs about, including in Burlington, Vermont&#8217;s biggest city and where we headed next. With people everywhere on the street early this <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=65\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}