{"id":705,"date":"2007-09-18T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=138"},"modified":"2007-09-18T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T16:37:05","slug":"91407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"9\/14\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Met with Phil Pinks in Dunkirk, Ohio. \u00a0 He said his grandaughter had an extreme case of Down Syndrome and was given virtually no chance of going to school, etc. \u00a0 However the extended family rallied around the girl and she is now 13 and enrolled in school. \u00a0 Pinks said he has done fundraising and helped with other activities for the handi-capped. \u00a0 He said his desire to help comes from his own mother, who would regularly help “hobos” and others down on their luck. \u00a0 “She did it because of her faith,” Pinks smiled… We then headed to Ada, Ohio, and the annual Herb Festival. \u00a0 I walked about the downtown area passing out flyers and talking to people. \u00a0 A good number of them had either seen the recent NBC <\/em>and\/or Fox News<\/em> pieces on our campaign. \u00a0 One person I bumped into at the festival was Pastor G. Alan Brown from Sugar Grove United Methodist Church. \u00a0 When we got to the topic of war, Pastor Brown said: \u00a0 “Christians can’t propogate violence as a means to peace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Met with Phil Pinks in Dunkirk, Ohio. \u00a0 He said his grandaughter had an extreme case of Down Syndrome and was given virtually no chance of going to school, etc. \u00a0 However the extended family rallied around the girl and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}