{"id":18185,"date":"2010-03-13T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18185"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:27:47","slug":"what-west-virginia-did-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/13\/what-west-virginia-did-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What West Virginia Did to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irene and I moved from Maryland to West Virginia in June 2004, though because the state required a notarized copy of my birth certificate, I wasn&#8217;t able to get a WV drivers license until July.  It was to expire on my birthday at the end of this month, but since I&#8217;ll be in London at the World Horror Con then&#8212;actually, I&#8217;ll be in the air on my actual birthday of March 31, so I can celebrate on two continents&#8212;I figured I&#8217;d better get the renewal out of the way. So I headed in last week to make sure my eyes still worked and to sign up for another five years of West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who&#8217;ve been wondering what West Virginia does to a man, check it out below. (And just in case you can&#8217;t tell, that&#8217;s July &#8217;04 to the left, March &#8217;10 to the right.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanWestVirginia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanWestVirginia-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanWestVirginia\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanWestVirginia-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanWestVirginia.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n I guess owning a shotgun and a chainsaw changes you more than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene and I moved from Maryland to West Virginia in June 2004, though because the state required a notarized copy of my birth certificate, I wasn&#8217;t able to get a WV drivers license until July. It was to expire on my birthday at the end of this month, but since I&#8217;ll be in London at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18187,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18185\/revisions\/18187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}