{"id":703,"date":"2007-09-14T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-09-14T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T17:22:16","slug":"91207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"9\/12\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>average JoeOhio Tour cont:<\/strong> \u00a0 I went to Columbus Grove, Ohio, to stump. \u00a0 Got in a great conversation with a group of locals at &#8220;The Gas Station.&#8221; \u00a0 (Simple and to the point.) \u00a0 One of the issues that came up was the fact a school levy had failed three times here. \u00a0 I suggestted an ad hoc committee be formed to set up a fund for all those who voted for the levy. \u00a0 They could voluntarily put the money they&#8217;d been assessed &#8212; or even more &#8212; in the fund for the schools. \u00a0 I mean, wouldn&#8217;t that be common sense? \u00a0 &#8230;I was then interviewed by the <em>Putnam County Sentinal<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0 In referring the the &#8216;voluntary levy&#8217; idea, I said some people have a tendency to do the right thing &#8212; if they are given that option&#8230; \u00a0 Later today I was interviewed by Nancy Kline from the new <em>Voices<\/em> newspaper in the area. \u00a0 She told me about a priest from Nigeria that she recently did a story about. \u00a0 He is here trying to raise money for his impoverished country. \u00a0 I said our platform calls for people in America to sacrifice significantly so people in the Third World can have the basics in food, medicine, shelter&#8230; There&#8217;s enough to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>average JoeOhio Tour cont: \u00a0 I went to Columbus Grove, Ohio, to stump. \u00a0 Got in a great conversation with a group of locals at &#8220;The Gas Station.&#8221; \u00a0 (Simple and to the point.) \u00a0 One of the issues that <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=703\"><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-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}