{"id":5397,"date":"2011-04-27T01:21:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T05:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2011-04-24T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:45:24","slug":"americas-weirdest-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5397","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Weirdest State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z0427111florida_weird.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When we moved down from <strong>Indiana<\/strong> in <strong>1973<\/strong>, <strong>Florida<\/strong> was known as <em><strong>The Sunshine State<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Families flocked to<strong> Florida<\/strong> to spend time in <strong>Daytona Beach<\/strong> aka <em><strong>&#8220;The World&#8217;s Most Famous Beach,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Disney World<\/strong> aka <em><strong>&#8220;The Magic Kingdom&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> &amp; <em><strong>&#8220;The Happiest Place on Earth,&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Marineland<\/strong> in our nation&#8217;s oldest city, <strong>St. Augustine,<\/strong> etc. etc. etc.\u00a0 <strong>Florida<\/strong> was considered such a <strong>family-friendly<\/strong> location that it was often the destination of high school students&#8217; senior trips.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But those days seem to be long gone.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s because <strong>Florida: <em>&#8220;The Sunshine State&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> motto has been replaced with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/04\/24\/florida-americas-weirdest-state\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida: <em>&#8220;America&#8217;s Weirdest State.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Crider<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved down from Indiana in 1973, Florida was known as The Sunshine State.\u00a0 Families flocked to Florida to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5399,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}