{"id":916,"date":"2009-05-30T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-05-30T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:59:50","slug":"353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"no TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

We entertained an Amish woman from Sugar Creek, Ohio, last night. \u00a0 She commented on us not having a television in our home. (We’ve done that intentionally). \u00a0 She said she believed this paves the way for children to tap in to way<\/em> \u00a0 more of their imagination. \u00a0 What’s more, we’ve noticed with our children that they are tremendously interested in, say, talking to adults for extended periods of time — because they haven’t been over-stimulated by television. \u00a0 My wife Liz told the Bryan Times<\/em> in Northwest Ohio during one of our campaign swings, that kids listening to storytelling, as opposed to watching television, have to exercise the brain \u00a0much more in regard to following plot lines, picturing characters and scenes, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We entertained an Amish woman from Sugar Creek, Ohio, last night. \u00a0 She commented on us not having a television in our home. (We’ve done that intentionally). \u00a0 She said she believed this paves the way for children to tap …<\/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-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}