{"id":844,"date":"2008-09-15T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-09-15T19:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T19:45:31","slug":"91508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"9\/15\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 Ohio got hit by it’s first (Category 1) Hurricane, ever, yesterday. \u00a0 Hurricane Ike arrived in the Buckeye State with wind gusts of up to 76 mph. \u00a0 We were driving our campaign vehicle\/camper \u00a0when the hurricane hit. \u00a0 My wife Liz, who is in a \u00a0perpetual state of denial about these things, said she thought the wind wasn’t “wasn’t really all that<\/em> bad” — as big oak and elm trees swayed like bamboo all around us. \u00a0 In all our years of campaigning (9), except for Montana and North Dakota in January, these had to be the worst conditions we’ve ever traveled in. \u00a0 We eventually took shelter at a horse farm near Hillsboro, Ohio. \u00a0 And after the hurricane let up, the kids actually got some informal horse riding lessons to boot (a pun, sort of). \u00a0 We don’t campaign on Sundays because of religious beliefs, so the horse farm turned out to be a great stop. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0<\/strong> This morning we stumped in Leesburg, Ohio, where we stopped in at Leesburg Hardware (old, dusty wooden floors, the whole small town thing). \u00a0 I gave owner George Smith $20 for a 39 cent black foam paint brush and told him to keep the change. \u00a0 It’s so<\/em> \u00a0 vital these Mom & Pop small town stores continue to survive in the face of what amounts to the gathering sea of big box retailers. \u00a0 And what’s to keep any of us from, well, \u00a0donating to their cause? For our position<\/a> on this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: \u00a0 Ohio got hit by it’s first (Category 1) Hurricane, ever, yesterday. \u00a0 Hurricane Ike arrived in the Buckeye State with wind gusts of up to 76 mph. \u00a0 We were driving our campaign vehicle\/camper …<\/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-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}