{"id":651,"date":"2007-06-14T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-06-14T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:44:30","slug":"61107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"6\/11\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Average JoeOhio Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 While in Bluffton, we stayed on Dan and Cindy Basinger&#8217;s farm. \u00a0 Dan told me he&#8217;d recently read a story about a rock singer who converted to Christianity. \u00a0 He was sitting in a pew during one of his first church services and leaned over to a man next to him. \u00a0 &#8220;When are we going to do it?&#8221; He asked. \u00a0 &#8220;Do what?&#8221; The man replied. \u00a0 &#8220;Do what Jesus did (heal the sick, help the poor, set captives free&#8230;).&#8221; \u00a0 The man replied again. \u00a0 &#8220;Oh, we don&#8217;t necessarily do that. \u00a0 We just mostly <em>talk<\/em> about what Jesus did.&#8221; \u00a0 &#8230; We did a whistle-stop event in Findlay, Ohio. \u00a0 Andy Black approached me and said one of his main issues was the environment. \u00a0 (In regard to the environment, he recommended the book <em>Animal Vegetables and Miracle<\/em> &#8220;&#8230;about the ecology of local food and the toxic logic of industrual agriculture.&#8221;) \u00a0 I told him that \u00a0the environment was one of our main issues \u00a0as well. \u00a0 I then told a reporter from the <em>Findlay Courier<\/em> newspaper that we had researched wind turbine projects in California and Oklahoma. \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, this part of Ohio (with it&#8217;s flat land and steady breezes) would be excellent for similar non-polluting, wind energy projects. \u00a0 I said as president, I would also push for subsidies to get farmers to &#8220;plant a row of wind turbines&#8221; on their farms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average JoeOhio Tour cont.: \u00a0 While in Bluffton, we stayed on Dan and Cindy Basinger&#8217;s farm. \u00a0 Dan told me he&#8217;d recently read a story about a rock singer who converted to Christianity. \u00a0 He was sitting in a pew <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=651\"><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-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}