{"id":853,"date":"2008-10-18T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-10-18T15:46:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T15:46:42","slug":"101608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"10\/16\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> This week we stumped at the Farmer’s Market in Athens, Ohio. Guitarist Billy Reiter, from Thornville, was playing “Neil Young stuff” there. I gave him a campaign flier and we talked briefly. Several days later I got an e-mail from him saying he was, indeed, going to vote for me. “We are no longer a government of the people, we are a government of the biggest bidder,” he wrote. What’s more, he said he was working on a blues-rock song titled: “Average Joe.”<\/em> Stay tuned… At the Farmer’s Market, I also talked with organic farmers (and authors) Art and Peggy Gish. They are both Christian Peace Keeper team members who have spent a considerable amount of the time in the Middle East. Peggy wrote the book Iraq (A Journey of Hope)<\/em>. She had just returned from yet another trip to Iraq and said the situation, contrary to some media reports, is “getting worse.” Peggy gave me a copy of her book. I read a section that night that explained that after an insurgent attack, if our military has pinpointed that the insurgent(s) has come from a specific neighborhood, a platoon will go door to door, sometimes beating, sometimes killing, often times taking off to jail… a significant number of the men (fathers, sons, brothers…) in the neighborhood. One Iraqi told Peggy that one Hussein is gone, yet another — U.S. military — has arrived. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0<\/strong> We got an “endorsement” from Georgia Dr. Jonathan Davis and an excellent write-up<\/a> on his blog Gridbook<\/em> \u00a0 this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.: This week we stumped at the Farmer’s Market in Athens, Ohio. Guitarist Billy Reiter, from Thornville, was playing “Neil Young stuff” there. I gave him a campaign flier and we talked briefly. Several days later …<\/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-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}