{"id":4423,"date":"2009-11-20T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:48:04","slug":"today-i-became-an-official-lone-star-stater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/11\/today-i-became-an-official-lone-star-stater\/","title":{"rendered":"All Local Discounts Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Today I Became an Official Lone Star Stater! And not just a Texas resident, a Marathon Texas resident. This sleepy little desert town I live in boasts a population of 450, so small the trains speed through it without stopping at the old station, and there&#8217;s a grocery store called the French Grocer where I now qualify for a hefty local discount. I&#8217;m officially a Marathon Local! With a PO Box and everything. I love how that sounds. It&#8217;s certainly special to me. Marathon is now my homebase, where I hideout the winter cold, and travel from.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborder\" title=\"new flair\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/texas-resident.jpg\" alt=\"Marathon Texas Resident. All Local Discounts Apply\" width=\"320\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So this is my new drivers license (learners permit). I laughed when I saw the photo &#8211; taken just a startling minute after hearing I&#8217;d passed. I look so, haha, I guess bewildered? Like a deer in headlights. My old PA ID I look so radiant, sure of myself, cocky even. Even though this one is so lame in the self-confidence department, and one of the worst photos ever taken of me, I still prefer the new one. It has great memories of that day, and it&#8217;s bursting with adolescent dreams that weren&#8217;t remotely possible in my previous life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Today I Became an Official Lone Star Stater! And not just a Texas resident, a Marathon Texas resident. This sleepy little desert town I live in boasts a population of 450, so small the trains speed through it without stopping at the old station, and there&#8217;s a grocery store called the French Grocer where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,408,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-diary","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}