{"id":38,"date":"2005-04-11T03:01:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T03:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog2\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:48:57","slug":"tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/38\/tennessee","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you were considering moving to the South*, consider this:&nbsp; <b>DON&#8217;T<\/b>.&nbsp;  The people are hard to understand; everyone&#8217;s religious; there are Confederate flags everywhere; and apparently the term &#8220;<i>southern hospitality<\/i>&#8221; is a euphemism for &#8220;<i>get the hell out of my country<\/i>.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nActually, in all honesty, my extremely secluded personal experience of the South wasn&#8217;t that terrible.&nbsp; However, let&#8217;s take a look at the statistics:<\/p>\n<p>The South:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>has the lowest literacy rate in the country, both functional illiteracy and <i>total<\/i> illiteracy;<\/li>\n<li>has the lowest average ACT\/SAT scores;\n  <\/li>\n<li>has the lowest average IQ;<\/li>\n<li>is the most religious;<\/li>\n<li>has the highest percentage of Republicans;<\/li>\n<li>has the highest percentage of wife-beaters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>* <i>The South, for those of you in Canada or living in the South, consists of about a dozen or so states in the south-eastern-most part of the United States.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the only place in the world, as far as my limited knowledge on the subject is aware of, that a homosexual man (in a love he cannot control) is denied marriage to another man, while a different man (in a love he <b>can<\/b> control) is allowed to marry his own first-cousin.<br \/> Welcome to America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any of you were considering moving to the South*, consider this:&nbsp; DON&#8217;T.&nbsp; The people are hard to understand; everyone&#8217;s religious; there are Confederate flags everywhere; and apparently the term &#8220;southern hospitality&#8221; is a euphemism for &#8220;get the hell out of my country.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp; Actually, in all honesty, my extremely secluded personal experience of the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}