{"id":783,"date":"2008-02-16T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T17:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-02-16T17:40:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T17:40:46","slug":"21608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"2\/16\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buckeye Back Roads Tour:<\/strong> \u00a0 I talked at St. Mark&#8217;s Church in Lancaster and St. Francis Church in Newark this last week. \u00a0 The topic: abortion. \u00a0 During one of the talks, I said for all the carnage at Northern Illinois University this week (six dead, some 15 injured in the shooting), there were about 4,400 little babies who were dismembered and suctioned out of their mothers&#8217; wombs that same day in America. \u00a0 Shouldn&#8217;t that be front page news, everyday? \u00a0 Of course it should&#8230; \u00a0 We did whistle-stop events in downtown Newark and downtown Columbus this past week as well. \u00a0 One man-on-the-street in Columbus queried: \u00a0 &#8220;You&#8217;re <em>really<\/em> running for president?&#8221; \u00a0 I replied: \u00a0 &#8220;Well, someone had to do it.&#8221; \u00a0 He smiled&#8230; \u00a0 In Lancaster, I interviewed Carol Sullivan who has been a Red Cross Volunteer since 1985. \u00a0 She&#8217;s responded to numerous crisis all over the country, including 9\/11, Hurricane Katrina&#8230; While she is a retired nurse, Ms. Sullivan is a woman who believes her faith would call her to continue to work for God. \u00a0 She is what we colloquially refer to as an &#8220;extra-mile American.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Back Roads Tour: \u00a0 I talked at St. Mark&#8217;s Church in Lancaster and St. Francis Church in Newark this last week. \u00a0 The topic: abortion. \u00a0 During one of the talks, I said for all the carnage at Northern <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=783\"><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-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}