{"id":978,"date":"2010-03-04T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=416"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:37:36","slug":"best-hot-dog-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"best hot dog in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;Georgia On My Mind Tour&#8221; continues&#8230; \u00a0 We \u00a0stumped at \u00a0Charlie Joseph&#8217;s Restaurant in downtown La Grange during lunch hour. \u00a0 A small Mom &amp; Pop restaurant that has been \u00a0around since 1920, and in the family for four generations. \u00a0 It is the <strong><em>&#8220;Home of the World&#8217;s Best Hot Dog,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0 and <em>USA Today<\/em> \u00a0 newspaper seems to agree. \u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s the closest you can get to heaven without actually dying. \u00a0 Chilli dogs are suggested for desert&#8230;&#8221; the paper says. \u00a0 And not only is the restaurant the home of the best hot dog in the country, it is home to perhaps the most stuff on the walls of any restaurant in the country, my &#8220;average Joe for president&#8221; card now included. \u00a0 Owner Stephen Keeth hung \u00a0up an autographed card \u00a0(hopefully not intentionally, although my wife might argue otherwise) right below a plaque that reads: \u00a0 <strong>&#8220;Cows may come and cows may go, but the bull in this place goes on forever.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our &#8220;Georgia On My Mind Tour&#8221; continues&#8230; \u00a0 We \u00a0stumped at \u00a0Charlie Joseph&#8217;s Restaurant in downtown La Grange during lunch hour. \u00a0 A small Mom &amp; Pop restaurant that has been \u00a0around since 1920, and in the family for four <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=978\"><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-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}