{"id":899,"date":"2009-04-02T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=336"},"modified":"2009-04-02T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:19:48","slug":"4209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"4\/2\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Aaron Brilbeck who is a <strong><em>Guardian Angels<\/em><\/strong> leader and trainer. \u00a0 Mr. Brilbeck is a former Toledo, Ohio, <em>ABC News<\/em> reporter. \u00a0 \u00a0At about six feet, he \u00a0was built well enough he \u00a0could have \u00a0easily passed for a Cleveland Browns linebacker. \u00a0 (And based on the season the Brown&#8217;s had last year, Mr. Bilbeck might want to try out.) \u00a0 He also has a second degree black belt in \u00a0karate. \u00a0 Why all of this comes in handy, is because he and other \u00a0<em>Guardian Angels<\/em> walk the streets of Toledo regularly trying to &#8220;keep it safe.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0They break up fights. \u00a0 And their presence helps deter a lot of \u00a0other kinds of crime as well. \u00a0 These guys \u00a0volunteer their time, and put themselves in harms way, \u00a0because they want the streets safer for everyone &#8220;&#8230;and there&#8217;s not enough police to go around,&#8221; said Mr. Brilbeck. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 There are \u00a0Guardian Angels chapters all over the country. \u00a0 For more, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardianangels.org\/\">www.guardianangels.org<\/a> \u00a0  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Aaron Brilbeck who is a Guardian Angels leader and trainer. \u00a0 Mr. Brilbeck is a former Toledo, Ohio, ABC News reporter. \u00a0 \u00a0At about six feet, he \u00a0was built well enough he \u00a0could have \u00a0easily passed for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=899\"><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-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}