{"id":159,"date":"2003-08-22T21:51:55","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T21:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:16:08","slug":"dont_mess_with_texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t mess with texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">big props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flattire.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greg<\/a> down in austin, texas! he got me one of the coolest bday presents ive ever received\u2026he travelled down to my old town along the gulf coast in texas, took 2 rolls of film, had them developed, and then sent them to me in time for my birthday. you rock greg! we had actually discussed this off hand months ago, after i had seen that he took a road trip to hope, texas (from the sandra bullock movie <i>hope floats<\/i>) for a friend of his. so i mentioned off hand that itd be coo for him to trip down to my lil boonie town in the middle of calhoun county (pronounced <i>cow~hooooon<\/i>). i passed him info on what i could remember of the two towns i lived in (point comfort and port lavaca)\u2026the addresses i thought were my old houses, some sites that i could remember, and left him to his own devices. and he came thru\u2026even tho i got both my addresses wrong. whups. and even tho i got reminded jus how boonie my town was, i still got all teary-eyed from seeing the lil shack of a house that we called our first home in america.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2.jpg 625w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2-250x330.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2-550x726.jpg 550w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2-136x180.jpg 136w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/tx2-379x500.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>01, 02<\/b> | the half moon reef lighthouse \u2013 symbol of port lavaca along the matagorda bay<br><b>03<\/b> | the old baptist church we used to attend in point comfort<br><b>04, 05<\/b> | my old elementary school in point comfort\u2026they still have the same hexagonal merry-go-round i used to play on!<br><b>06<\/b> | the playground near the waterside at the back of point comfort<br><b>07<\/b> | my first home in america<br><b>08, 09<\/b> | our second home in port lavaca\u2026the big tree thats been hacked apart in the front lawn? we planted that apple tree right before we moved<br><b>10, 11<\/b> | the twin dolphins theater\u2026saw e.t. there<br><b>12<\/b> | the big h.e.b. supermarket\u2026hey, its one of the few non-home, non-school memories i could remember<br>thanx a shitload greg. very coo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>big props to greg down in austin, texas! he got me one of the coolest bday presents ive ever received\u2026he travelled down to my old town along the gulf coast in texas, took 2 rolls of film, had them developed, and then sent them to me in time for my birthday. you rock greg! we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-favorites","category-photo-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8742,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/8742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}