{"id":931,"date":"2009-07-18T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T20:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-07-18T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T20:07:39","slug":"whirlwind-in-huntington-wv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"whirlwind in Huntington, WV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve stayed in Huntington, West Virginia (pop. 50,000) the last week amidst a whirlind of activity. \u00a0 I was interviewed by the online newspaper here and <em>Channel 3 News<\/em> did an interview during a whistle-stop event we held downtown. \u00a0 Last Sunday I talked at all the weekend Masses at St. Joseph&#8217;s Church about pro-Life issues. \u00a0 We then met with \u00a0columnist Patrick Grace, who is with Huntington&#8217;s <em>Herald Dispatch<\/em> newspaper. \u00a0 We were on the same page with Mr. Grace when it comes to holding a Consistent Life Ethic. \u00a0 That is, this sets us against abortion, euthanasia, poverty, pollution and anything else that can end life prematurely&#8230; We also stumped in the Jolly Pirate Donut place here with some guys at the counter who had seen the <em>Channel 3 News<\/em> spot. \u00a0 One said: \u00a0 &#8220;Whatever you do, don&#8217;t say anything against coal as you&#8217;re touring West Virginia.&#8221; \u00a0 This still didn&#8217;t convince me that speaking against blowing the tops off mountains to get to the coal \u00a0isn&#8217;t called for. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve stayed in Huntington, West Virginia (pop. 50,000) the last week amidst a whirlind of activity. \u00a0 I was interviewed by the online newspaper here and Channel 3 News did an interview during a whistle-stop event we held downtown. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=931\"><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-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}