{"id":13,"date":"2008-12-10T19:37:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianhudson.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-12-10T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T00:37:34","slug":"i-live-in-a-small-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/2008\/12\/10\/i-live-in-a-small-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona, here I come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I got here, all it took was one look at this small town and I knew I was home.\u00a0 All I had done was took a picture of Arizona, cut it out and threw a dart at it.\u00a0 Where ever it stuck, that&#8217;s where I headed.\u00a0 It took me 3 days to get there from South Carolina but I made it.<\/p>\n<p>I got a motel room, a news paper and a burger and started plotting my course.\u00a0 The first thing I looked for was a job.\u00a0 There was an ad in the paper for a carpenters helper.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t start you off very well but it did say that the pay rate was dependant on what you could show them that you could do.\u00a0 I got a good nights sleep and was at their door at 6:30 a.m.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know the ad had just come out that very day I got the paper.\u00a0 I was hired by 7:30.<\/p>\n<p>I was on my way!!\u00a0 They told me what time to be back in the morning and introduced me to the guy I would be working with.\u00a0 He was a pretty nice guy and we got along great the whole week we worked together.\u00a0 He stuck me on every odd job he could find just to see what I could do.\u00a0 I must have passed the test because I got a $5 an hour raise the next week.\u00a0 I felt like I was on top of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got here, all it took was one look at this small town and I knew I was home.\u00a0 All I had done was took a picture of Arizona, cut it out and threw a dart at it.\u00a0 Where ever it stuck, that&#8217;s where I headed.\u00a0 It took me 3 days to get there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/2008\/12\/10\/i-live-in-a-small-apartment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arizona, here I come&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-news","category-pure-luck","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/christopherhudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}