{"id":779,"date":"2008-02-07T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=214"},"modified":"2008-02-07T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T15:31:08","slug":"2708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"2\/7\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buckeye Back Roads Tour<\/strong>: \u00a0 We stopped in a number of small towns and burgs in Adams County, Ohio, this week. \u00a0 In Unity, Ohio (Amish country), we \u00a0visited Ryan&#8217;s Grocery. \u00a0 It \u00a0is a very \u00a0small store with old wooden floors and a couple black van seats positioned near a space heater. \u00a0 A spot, I&#8217;m sure, where the town brain trust meets regularly and a scene not unlike one Norman Rockwell would have featured in his painting. \u00a0 Owner Eugene Ryan, 82, told me he&#8217;s the third generation to own the store. \u00a0 But, sadly, none of his children want to take it over. \u00a0 Besides, it&#8217;s struggling (like many \u00a0similar, small local stores these days) to stay afloat because \u00a0the big stores are taking a good deal of his business. \u00a0 Mr. Ryan, who is Presbyterian, said Jesus was continually saying in the gospel message that we are to &#8220;help&#8221; those around us as much as possible. \u00a0 Yet, Mr. Ryan continued, we&#8217;ve instead set up a system \u00a0where we primarily &#8220;compete&#8221; \u00a0with those around us. \u00a0 The folly of man vs. the wisdom of God, Mr. Ryan concluded. <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 For a remedy to our hyper-competitive equation in America, see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/stands_economy_philosophy.html\">position paper<\/a> on what we feel would be \u00a0a saner version of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Back Roads Tour: \u00a0 We stopped in a number of small towns and burgs in Adams County, Ohio, this week. \u00a0 In Unity, Ohio (Amish country), we \u00a0visited Ryan&#8217;s Grocery. \u00a0 It \u00a0is a very \u00a0small store with old <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=779\"><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-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}