{"id":670,"date":"2007-07-28T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-07-28T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T19:18:12","slug":"72607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"7\/26\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour&#8221; cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I talked at a Catholic Church in Alliance, Ohio, this morning. \u00a0 Fr. Mike here introduced me by saying he&#8217;d seen the <em>Channel 5 News<\/em> spot the other night, and hoped I&#8217;d do well. \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;And then, well, here you are,&#8221; he smiled&#8230; A story in the Canton newspaper appeared about our stop in Massilon the day before. \u00a0 The tag line read: \u00a0 <strong>Hillary? Rudy? Fuggettaboutem!<\/strong> \u00a0 The headline then read: \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Average Joe \u00a0Wants Your Vote&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 I liked that. \u00a0 And \u00a0although my spell check is telling me &#8216;fuggettaboutem&#8217; is not a word &#8212; it is in Cleveland&#8230; We did a whistle-stop in Alliance, Ohio, today. \u00a0 A reporter fromt he Alliance newspaper asked what was driving me. \u00a0 I said &#8220;we used to be concerned about our kids doing OK in English Class. \u00a0 But now we&#8217;re more concerned about them being <em>shot to death<\/em> in English Class.&#8221; \u00a0 A news team form <em>Channel 19 <\/em>out of Cleveland drove an hour and a half to film the whistle-stop event in Alliance. \u00a0 The reporter asked me what I thought was the most significant current issue. \u00a0 I said I thought global warming was. \u00a0 She immediately leaned in and said: \u00a0 <em>&#8220;But Joe, were in a war!&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0 I said if there was no world left, being in a war (one way or the other) would be a mute point&#8230; \u00a0 We then headed on to Warren, Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour&#8221; cont: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I talked at a Catholic Church in Alliance, Ohio, this morning. \u00a0 Fr. Mike here introduced me by saying he&#8217;d seen the Channel 5 News spot the other night, and hoped I&#8217;d do well. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=670\"><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-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}