{"id":5025,"date":"2013-01-29T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2013-01-29T07:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T13:03:06","slug":"top-ten-differences-between-iowa-and-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/top-ten-differences-between-iowa-and-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Differences Between Iowa and Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iowa:Texas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s the difference between Iowa and Texas? Here are my top ten answers based on a few days in Corpus Christi last week.<\/p>\n

10. Bilingual signs are no big deal in Texas. In Iowa, some people view them with suspicion.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 Corpus Christi, population\u00a0307,953<\/em>, is considered a small city in Texas. Des Moines, population\u00a0206,599<\/em>, is Iowa’s largest city and the capitol. We think it’s plenty big.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 Texas wait staff ask if you want sweet iced tea or plain iced tea. Iowa wait staff ask if you want hot tea or iced tea.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 Texas restaurants feature iced tea as their go-to drink in January. Iowa restaurants feature coffee. Hot coffee.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 In Texas, you can order shrimp three days in a row, and it’s no big deal. In Iowa, it’s a big deal.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 When the Star Spangled Banner accompaniment doesn’t work in Texas, every day folk sing a capella, no holds barred. In Iowa, every day folk refuse to sing anything a capella unless under duress because it’s not polite to show off.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Iowans feel guilty about escaping winter to enjoy 70+ degree Texas weather for a few days. Texans think Iowans are crazy to live where the temperature goes below freezing.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 In much of Texas, home owners consider swimming pools a necessity and furnaces non-essential. In Iowa, furnaces are a necessity and swimming pools are for rich people.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 In Texas, people will wait in line for a half hour to get ice cream at Baskin Robbins on a\u00a0 January Friday night. In Iowa, people wait in line for a half hour to get hot chocolate on a January Friday night.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 John Wayne may have been born in Iowa, but Texas owns him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the difference between Iowa and Texas? Here are my top ten answers based on a few days in Corpus Christi last week. 10. Bilingual signs are no big deal in Texas. In Iowa, some people view them with suspicion. 9.\u00a0 Corpus Christi, population\u00a0307,953, is considered a small city in Texas. 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