Backstory: In 21 years of living in the Twin Cities, I’ve met quite a number of fellow expat North Dakotans. Whereever they’re from, no matter what the age difference, it matters not – rarely can we talk for more than a minute without coming up with at least one common acquaintance or friend.
\nSo I was on a date the other night. In and among the other conversation, my date mentioned “my sister’s husband is from North Dakota”.<\/p>\n
ME: “Really? Where?”<\/p>\n
SHE: “I don’t know. But his last name is [very common name in ND<\/em>]<\/p>\n ME: “Really? What’s his first name?” [I ask, remembering that I knew a Todd [very common name in ND<\/em>]]<\/p>\n SHE: “James”<\/p>\n ME: “Ah, Well, it could be…”<\/p>\n SHE: “But everyone calls him Todd”<\/p>\n I made her call her sister on the cell phone. Sure enough, it was the very same Todd [very common name in ND<\/em>] that I used to walk to school with, thirty years ago. He lives in the Metro, runs a business, is apparently quite a guy.<\/p>\n It’s hard to explain to other people, sometimes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Backstory: In 21 years of living in the Twin Cities, I’ve met quite a number of fellow expat North Dakotans. Whereever they’re from, no matter what the age difference, it matters not – rarely can we talk for more than a minute without coming up with at least one common acquaintance or friend. So I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}