{"id":932,"date":"2009-07-27T21:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-07-27T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T21:38:32","slug":"green-party-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Green Party Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed into Durham, North Carolina, for the <strong>Green Party National Convention<\/strong>. \u00a0 The Green Party, in my estimation, is tremendously forward thinking on \u00a0a good number of issues, including the environment. \u00a0 They are on the cutting edge, for instance, of promoting &#8220;green economics.&#8221; \u00a0 That is, the party promotes a shift to much more: renewable energy, local production for local consumption, alternative transportation&#8230; \u00a0 I recently told an online newspaper in Huntington, West Virginia, that I saw climate change as a &#8220;pro-Life issue.&#8221; \u00a0 No world, no life&#8230; \u00a0 The Green Party is also quite strong on issues \u00a0involving diversity, social justice and grassroots democracy. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 While in Durham, I took our boys to a Saturday night <strong>Durham Bulls Minor League Baseball<\/strong> game. \u00a0 We sat on the lawn beyond the center field fence and had an absolutely <em>great<\/em> time. \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, it cost only 20 bucks for the three of us (and that included getting a pop in an &#8220;official&#8221; Durham Bulls big plastic cup).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed into Durham, North Carolina, for the Green Party National Convention. \u00a0 The Green Party, in my estimation, is tremendously forward thinking on \u00a0a good number of issues, including the environment. \u00a0 They are on the cutting edge, for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=932\"><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-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","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=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}