{"id":232,"date":"2003-06-14T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-15T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=232"},"modified":"2003-06-14T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-15T01:50:00","slug":"why-i-loathe-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/why-i-loathe-orange-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Loathe Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/061403a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>Why do I loathe Orange County? Let me count the ways. Also known as O.C..  Also also known as &#8220;Only Caucasions&#8221;. I grew up in Orange County and one of my priorities was to get out of there as soon as I could. It&#8217;s a place you run away from. After a friends party I stopped by to see some other friends and I actually knocked on the wrong door. How could I tell? All the houses look the same down there. The guy who answered the door said &#8220;Oh, they live 2 houses down in the house with the bigger palm trees&#8221;. It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t been to this house a bunch of times either. I just couldn&#8217;t tell. Which brings me to the single scariest statues I&#8217;ve ever seen. At the entrance to a housing tract down there are these two statues. A man with a daughter, and a woman with a son. I&#8217;m not going to go on about why I hate these statues, they speak for themselves. The amount of American flags and SUV&#8217;s in this place is astounding. Ah, my hometown, gotta love it. Now get me the hell out of here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I loathe Orange County? Let me count the ways. Also known as O.C.. Also also known as &#8220;Only Caucasions&#8221;. I grew up in Orange County and one of my priorities was to get out of there as soon as I could. It&#8217;s a place you run away from. After a friends party I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-3K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}