{"id":99,"date":"2004-08-20T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=93"},"modified":"2004-08-20T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T19:23:01","slug":"81604","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"8\/16\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont.<\/strong><\/em>    Just before  a whistle-stop event we had planned for Mt. Vernon, Ohio today, Walter O&#8217;Dell pulled up in his GEM mini-electric pick up truck.  He said since he&#8217;s bought one (for $9,500), four other people in town have bought them as well in the past four months.  What&#8217;s more,  his first 800 miles has cost him a mere $11 in additional electricity costs.  I told a reporter from Mt. Vernon&#8217;s newspaper that we would spread the word about Mr. O&#8217;Dell&#8217;s electric vehicle purchase across the country &#8212;  so even more people would buy them, and in turn, the air might become a bit less polluted for everyone.  (It is my opinion Mr. O&#8217;Dell didn&#8217;t just make a socially responsible decision, he made a <em>moral one <\/em>as well, because we are called to be good stewards of the environment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. Just before a whistle-stop event we had planned for Mt. Vernon, Ohio today, Walter O&#8217;Dell pulled up in his GEM mini-electric pick up truck. He said since he&#8217;s bought one (for $9,500), four other people <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=99\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}