{"id":26350,"date":"2009-04-16T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/16\/i-am-so-excited\/"},"modified":"2009-04-16T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:30:19","slug":"i-am-so-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/i-am-so-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"I am so excited!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas is going to secede from the union! Seriously! The governor of Texas has laid down the gauntlet, and unless we get rid of that Black Guy as president and that Damn Woman as speaker of the house, it’s vamoose for Texas!<\/p>\n

And I couldn’t be happier. Texas should not be part of the Union. Why? Well, there are a lot of reasons, but here are the top three:<\/p>\n

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  1. Texans are stupid. They bring our total national average down too much. <\/li>\n
  2. Texans are regressive. Two steps forward, ten steps backwards, politically. I’d rather not live in the middle ages, thank you very much.<\/li>\n
  3. Texans smell bad, look funny, and have kooties. I know that looks like three reasons but I think they may be linked. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Good bye, Texas!<\/p>\n

    (I can’t wait to see how this affects immigration policy in the US and the new Lone Star Country.)<\/p>\n

    You know, I got interviewed on the phone by a reporter from Texas this morning and I’m still washing my my ear out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Texas is going to secede from the union! Seriously! The governor of Texas has laid down the gauntlet, and unless we get rid of that Black Guy as president and that Damn Woman as speaker of the house, it’s vamoose for Texas! And I couldn’t be happier. Texas should not be part of the Union. … Continue reading I am so excited!!!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6R0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}