{"id":1245,"date":"2018-09-14T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-09-14T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T14:38:40","slug":"city-council-candidate-knocks-on-400-doors-and-runs-away-when-people-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"City council candidate knocks on 400 doors and runs away when people answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vote-661888__340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vote-661888__340-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vote-661888__340-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vote-661888__340-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vote-661888__340.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON &#8211;\u00a0Ward 11 city council candidate Peter Brock has run into problems with his grass-roots door knocking campaign in recent weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I just get so nervous when I have to speak to strangers so my door knocking idea isn&#8217;t going over very well&#8221; explained Mr. Brock on Friday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I work up the courage to knock on the door but then I get an overwhelming urge to run off if someone opens their door.\u00a0 I read in the paper that all the other candidates are doing door knocking campaigns too.\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder if I am the only one who knocks and then runs off?&#8221;\u00a0Brock questioned as he wandered the streets of Ward 11 looking for another residence to approach.<\/p>\n<p>In a related story a group of eight-year-olds in the neighbourhood have reported that they too like to knock on people&#8217;s doors and run-off.\u00a0\u00a0 No one in the group of children has yet to announce their intentions to run for political office in Windsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON &#8211;\u00a0Ward 11 city council candidate Peter Brock has run into problems with his grass-roots door knocking campaign in recent weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;I just get so nervous when I have to speak to strangers so my door knocking idea isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}