{"id":211,"date":"2008-02-03T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/a-true-texan\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T01:22:47","slug":"a-true-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/a-true-texan\/","title":{"rendered":"A true Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you already know I grew up in Texas (we moved here to Dallas when I was 9 years old) so this is pretty much home.  Well&#8230; despite being raised in Texas, there are certain Texan experiences that I have not had yet.  One such experience was riding a mechanical bull.  I am happy to report that I have crossed this off my list as I have now ridden a mechanical bull.  A coworker of mine had a birthday party last night at a country western club, and they had one, so I could not pass up the opportunity.  Below is a picture.  I must say that it was pretty fun.  I didn&#8217;t stay on as long as I would have liked to because I was sliding down so far to the point that I was sitting on my hand and it started to hurt, so I kinda gave in and allowed myself to be thrown off.   I&#8217;ll have to try again another time, maybe when William is in town \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2004\/2237735939_4ab612d328.jpg\" title=\"Kyllan's Bull Riding experience \" alt=\"Kyllan's Bull Riding experience \" align=\"middle\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you already know I grew up in Texas (we moved here to Dallas when I was 9 years old) so this is pretty much home. Well&#8230; despite being raised in Texas, there are certain Texan experiences that I have not had yet. One such experience was riding a mechanical bull. I am happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}