{"id":98,"date":"2004-08-14T23:37:52","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T23:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=92"},"modified":"2004-08-14T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T23:37:52","slug":"81404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"8\/14\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/strong><\/em> In Loudonville, Ohio we met Paula Young who said she’d “never be ‘old.”‘ To keep with the name theme, she said her 23-year-old son is named: Harley (Are you ready for this?) Davidson<\/em> Young. On a more sober note, the son is a Sergeant in the Army National Guard and is currently in Iraq. Another sobering thing we came across in Loudonville today was a statistic. In the window of Brad Porter’s Driving School in downtown Loudonville is a sign that says: There’s a vehicular traffic death every 13 minutes in America. “That’s 114 people every day,” Porter told me. He added that would be like having a half full commercial airplane go down in this country — every day. “Would you fly knowing that?” He asks. I recently told the Warren, Ohio Chronicle Tribune <\/em>that, to cut back on these highway deaths, maiming (not to mention pollution levels, and so on), we propose more “Walkable Communities,” a model developed by Dan Burden. These towns feature lower speed limits, wider bicycle lanes, diagonal paths to shorten distances to the center of town… Average Joe truism: “The less people who drive — the less car accidents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. In Loudonville, Ohio we met Paula Young who said she’d “never be ‘old.”‘ To keep with the name theme, she said her 23-year-old son is named: Harley (Are you ready for this?) Davidson Young. On …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}