{"id":153,"date":"2007-11-29T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2007\/11\/29\/smorgasmoard\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T22:52:05","slug":"smorgasmoard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"smorgasmoard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; I finally got my TN driver&#8217;s license today.  Things have changed, I tell you.  Last time I was at the DMV here it probably took me an hour.  The DMV in NOLA was (this is no exaggeration) the worst example of bureaucratic nightmare I&#8217;ve ever experienced.  However, the DMV in OR was pleasant even if they did make me take a written exam to exchange my LA license for an OR one.  But today?  Man, I read the list of required documentation, brought it with, and a book as well.  Not only did my book stay unread, I didn&#8217;t even have a chance to finish filling out my supplemental form (Where All You Done Been Licensed In Th&#8217; Past 10 Years&#8217;r So?) before they called my number.  It was that fast.  Twelve dollars and fifty cents later I was on my way out and holding a new little plastic identifier.<br \/>\n&#8211; I did indeed get my photo took with my beard on.<br \/>\n&#8211; I also, as (in my opinion) all good citizens should, told them I&#8217;m willing to let anyone who needs &#8217;em get my hands on my organs after death, what with me not going to be using them any more.<br \/>\n&#8211; Except for the beard.  I&#8217;d like to keep that with me should I happen to die while wearing it.<br \/>\n&#8211; And you know, I&#8217;ve got this ridiculous desire to eat at a Chinese buffet tonight, or in other words I&#8217;m on a quest to harm my innards, so you may not want them anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; I finally got my TN driver&#8217;s license today. Things have changed, I tell you. Last time I was at the DMV here it probably took me an hour. The DMV in NOLA was (this is no exaggeration) the worst example of bureaucratic nightmare I&#8217;ve ever experienced. However, the DMV in OR was pleasant even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}