{"id":653,"date":"2007-06-19T14:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T14:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-06-19T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T14:59:37","slug":"61407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"6\/14\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to an Assemblies of God Wednesday night service in Bellevue, Ohio, last night. \u00a0 Pastor John Ginty and his wife Jodi told me they used to be involved with the &#8220;Open Air Ministry&#8221; in LA&#8217;s Watts area. \u00a0 Amidst alcohol, drugs, violence, police helicopter search lights&#8230; John would walk into this area at, among other times, midnight on a Saturday &#8212; playing guitar and talking about Jesus. \u00a0 &#8220;We were literally putting our lives on the line any time we went down to this project (Jordan Downs Project),&#8221; Jodi said. \u00a0 Jodi and John talked about gang members turning their lives over to Christ, children finding hope in their Children&#8217;s Ministry, and so on. \u00a0 The next day, druing a whistle-stop event, \u00a0I told the editor of <em>The Bellevue Gazette<\/em> that the nation could use way more of this type of &#8220;holy boldness.&#8221; \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Bellevue&#8217;s Brian Oldo has caught some of this &#8216;boldness&#8217; when it comes to politics. \u00a0 He told me that he often gets behind political causes. \u00a0 His last was \u00a0helping to push to raise the minimum wage in Ohio. \u00a0 He said he and a group of advocates went to various nearby towns (&#8220;Republican strongholds,&#8221; he said.) and stumped for the cause. \u00a0 It passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to an Assemblies of God Wednesday night service in Bellevue, Ohio, last night. \u00a0 Pastor John Ginty and his wife Jodi told me they used to be involved with the &#8220;Open Air Ministry&#8221; in LA&#8217;s Watts area. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=653\"><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-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}