{"id":1823,"date":"2008-02-08T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2008-02-08T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T14:42:32","slug":"must-pass-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/02\/08\/must-pass-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Pass Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a native Californian, my sworn enemy is the state of Texas.  Thus it gives me great pleasure to <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/08\/technology\/08nation.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">see<\/a> that the state of Washington is tied with Texas in venture capital funding.  Soon, Seattle, will rule the world!  Okay, maybe not.  But I love Oren Etzioni&#8217;s comment on comparing Silicon Valley to Seattle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Etzioni says Seattle has at least one advantage over its storied counterpart in California. &#8220;People aren&#8217;t distracted by too much sunshine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They sit in their offices or garages and get creative.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a native Californian, my sworn enemy is the state of Texas. Thus it gives me great pleasure to see that the state of Washington is tied with Texas in venture capital funding. Soon, Seattle, will rule the world! Okay, maybe not. But I love Oren Etzioni&#8217;s comment on comparing Silicon Valley to Seattle: Mr. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/02\/08\/must-pass-texas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Must Pass Texas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","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":[75,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}