{"id":1769,"date":"2007-09-06T08:05:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1769"},"modified":"2007-09-06T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T14:41:54","slug":"wild-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1769","title":{"rendered":"Wild &#038; Wonderful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who cringe every time we cross the state line, and who think that &#8220;open for business&#8221; makes us sound completely desperate, Manchin has finally heard our complaints, and we can now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wva.state.wv.us\/wv_slogan\/\">vote to get the state&#8217;s slogan changed to something reasonable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>West Virginians are first being asked whether or not you want a permanent \t\t\t\t\t\tslogan on the state&#8217;s welcome signs or not, since the interstate signs had gone \t\t\t\t\t\twithout anything but a &#8220;Welcome to&#8221; for 15 years prior to 2006. If you do want a \t\t\t\t\t\tpermanent slogan on the signs, you are asked to submit your choice. If the majority \t\t\t\t\t\tof voters wish to have a permanent welcome slogan then your submissions will be \t\t\t\t\t\ttabulated and a second round of voting will be initiated based upon the top choices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t care whether we have a permanent slogan or not. I just want &#8220;open for business&#8221; GONE.<br \/>\nSo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wva.state.wv.us\/wv_slogan\/\">go<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wva.state.wv.us\/wv_slogan\/\">Vote<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Too bad there&#8217;s not a comment spot, so we can tell the governor how we really feel about &#8220;open for business&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us who cringe every time we cross the state line, and who think that &#8220;open for business&#8221; makes us sound completely desperate, Manchin has finally heard our complaints, and we can now vote to get the state&#8217;s slogan changed to something reasonable. West Virginians are first being asked whether or not you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-sx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}