{"id":1303,"date":"2020-01-05T19:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T01:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2020\/01\/05\/20200105-signs\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T02:51:04","slug":"20200105-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2020\/01\/05\/20200105-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"The signs are there"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of signs have recently caught my eye, both of which are reminders that we live in Texas, and in a not entirely civilized part of the state at that.<\/p>\n

The first one was on the front door of our post office…which is located about a mile from our house as the crow flies (assuming the crow flies in a straight line; I don’t really know much about their flight patterns).<\/p>\n

\"Sign
\nAn unwritten rule: Always hike with someone slower than you.<\/p>\n

There are people in our neighborhood who claim to have spotted a mountain lion up the hill past our security gate. I’ll take their word for it; personally, I’d much rather have the occasional bobcat passing through.<\/p>\n

Then there’s this sign.<\/p>\n

\"Sign
\nY’all be in Texas now.<\/p>\n

“So, what’s the big deal?” you’re probably thinking. “Every sporting goods store in the country has a sign like this.”<\/p>\n

Of course. But does every hospital gift shop<\/b>? Well, hoss, maybe you’ve been going to the wrong hospital.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been in the gift shop to see exactly what kind of camo (scrubs? bandages? bedpans?) or hunting items (12 gauge needles<\/i>? slingshots<\/i>?) they stock. But I do find it interesting that the hospital sells hunting items but guns are not permitted on the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of signs have recently caught my eye, both of which are reminders that we live in Texas, and in a not entirely civilized part of the state at that. The first one was on the front door of our post office…which is located about a mile from our house as the crow flies… Continue reading The signs are there<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[9,13,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","category-texas","category-texas-hill-country","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}