{"id":693,"date":"2007-09-04T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-09-04T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T15:22:55","slug":"91-trhu-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"9\/1 trhu 2\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour&#8221; cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 We headed west to Milian, Ohio, for the Milan Melon Festival Parade. \u00a0 What a crowd! \u00a0 Our kids buzzed about the <em>average Joe mobiles<\/em> (one driven by Liz&#8217;s father Stuart) on roller blades throwing candy and passing out flyers. \u00a0 I walked along the curb, shaking hands and promising everyone wearing an Ohio State shirt (and there were <em>a lot<\/em>) that: \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;When I get to D.C., I&#8217;m going to have a big buckeye put on top of the Capitol Dome!&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0 (Well I can do that, can&#8217;t I?) \u00a0 Passing through the bandstand area, the announcer noted that another of my campaign promises is that I was going to have &#8220;&#8230;melons at the Inaugaration.&#8221; \u00a0 Just as he finished reading this, I turned to the crowd in the stands and yelled: \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;AND A MELON IN EVERY POT, TOO!&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0 (Well, when in Rome&#8230;). \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The night before, we attended part of the High School Band Concert and the Melon Festival Queen Contest. \u00a0 As the contest was going on, I milled about passing out flyers \u00a0and \u00a0finding myself in a conversation with a \u00a0local high school football coach. \u00a0 At one point I asked him: \u00a0 &#8220;Why does the Milan Melon Festival Queen need a chaperone?&#8221; \u00a0 He didn&#8217;t know. \u00a0 Answer: \u00a0 &#8220;So she <em>cantelope<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0 He smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;average JoeOhio Tour&#8221; cont: \u00a0 We headed west to Milian, Ohio, for the Milan Melon Festival Parade. \u00a0 What a crowd! \u00a0 Our kids buzzed about the average Joe mobiles (one driven by Liz&#8217;s father Stuart) on roller blades throwing <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=693\"><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-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}