{"id":926,"date":"2009-06-27T20:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T20:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-06-27T20:57:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T20:57:21","slug":"364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"‘loneliest highway’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went to Mass at St. Peter’s in Chillicothe, Ohio, yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0Just before singing the final \u00a0hymn, the priest noted it had been “one of President Kennedy’s favorite.” \u00a0 After Mass, I approached the priest, told him I was running for president as an independent candidate, and said I wondered if he wanted to know my favorite hymn for the next Service. \u00a0 He smiled, politely… \u00a0 In Chillicothe, we connected with Rte. 50, which is our next tour route. \u00a0 It stretches from coast to coast and is known as: “The loneliest highway in America.”<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0Once again, defying any type of political logic, we press on… \u00a0 \u00a0In Hillsboro, Ohio, I talked with a woman who had taken her child out of the public high school in ninth grade “…because the kids were continually making fun of her.” \u00a0 During one of our previous tours, I told a newspaper in Cheboygan, Michigan, that the ‘Columbine killings,’ and the like, \u00a0don’t happen in a vaccuum. It’s a build-up of years of ridicule, bullying and a variety of other \u00a0psycho-social dynamics that push kids over the edge… \u00a0 In tiny Belfast, Ohio, we stopped at Boltes General Store<\/strong> (established in 1955<\/em>). \u00a0 It had an old wooden floor, a juke box, a decorative Shell Oil pump from the mid 1930s… Great place! \u00a0 I put a campaign flier in the window and they gave me a commemorative Boltes General Store pen, which I will cherish — because my other pen had just run out of ink. \u00a0 Have I mentioned it’s a low budget campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went to Mass at St. Peter’s in Chillicothe, Ohio, yesterday. \u00a0 \u00a0Just before singing the final \u00a0hymn, the priest noted it had been “one of President Kennedy’s favorite.” \u00a0 After Mass, I approached the priest, told him I was …<\/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-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}