{"id":951,"date":"2009-11-20T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/11\/20\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-7-and-8\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:54:00","slug":"twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-7-and-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-7-and-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Things I Like About Texas (#7 and #8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7. Sweet tea.&#160; This needs no explanation.&#160; I like it that every McDonalds, every Wendys, every-whatever has sweet tea.&#160; This is a taste of heaven.&#160; (And yes, they also have Dr. Pepper.&#160; Everywhere.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas7and8_D175\/091107261tb_DxO_raw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"091107261tb_DxO_raw\" border=\"0\" alt=\"091107261tb_DxO_raw\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas7and8_D175\/091107261tb_DxO_raw_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>8. Texas has no state income tax.&#160; That means no forms, no filing, and no paying.&#160; California, just to note one point of contrast, raises your withholding rate even though tax rates haven&#8217;t changed.&#160; Let me tell you this: you don&#8217;t need the 2010 census to tell you whether more stupid people live in California or Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7. Sweet tea.&#160; This needs no explanation.&#160; I like it that every McDonalds, every Wendys, every-whatever has sweet tea.&#160; This is a taste of heaven.&#160; (And yes, they also have Dr. Pepper.&#160; Everywhere.) 8. Texas has no state income tax.&#160; That means no forms, no filing, and no paying.&#160; California, just to note one point\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/20\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-7-and-8\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-texas","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}