{"id":952,"date":"2009-11-21T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2009\/11\/21\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-9-and-10\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:02:00","slug":"twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-9-and-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-9-and-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Things I Like About Texas (#9 and #10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9. Warm winters.&#160; One day in January we left Rockford, Illinois and it was zero degrees.&#160; By the time we arrived (by car) in Texas, it was warm.&#160; (I don&#8217;t remember exactly, but probably 60).&#160; There are colder days, as this photo attests, but they are rare.&#160; It may snow once a year and it may stick for a couple of hours.&#160; That&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas9and10_D2A6\/080304927tbdxo.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=\"080304927tbdxo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"080304927tbdxo\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TwelveThingsILikeAboutTexas9and10_D2A6\/080304927tbdxo_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>&#160;<em>Snow in our front yard, March 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p>10. Libraries here give you receipts for the books you check out.&#160; That is slick and helpful, especially when you have lots of kids who check out lots of books.&#160; Maybe they have this in other states, but I&#8217;ve never seen it.&#160; So this counts in Texas &#8216; favor.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9. Warm winters.&#160; One day in January we left Rockford, Illinois and it was zero degrees.&#160; By the time we arrived (by car) in Texas, it was warm.&#160; (I don&#8217;t remember exactly, but probably 60).&#160; There are colder days, as this photo attests, but they are rare.&#160; It may snow once a year and it\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/twelve-things-i-like-about-texas-9-and-10\/\">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-952","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\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}