{"id":183,"date":"2023-03-07T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=183"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:57:14","slug":"5-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-claim-to-live-in-dc-if-you-dont-live-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons why you shouldn\u2019t claim to live in DC if you don\u2019t live in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing all students in the Whitman area love doing in their free time is saying that they\u2019re from \u201cDC,\u201d especially putting the two letters in their Instagram bio to be proud of their DC heritage. But that\u2019s the catch: they\u2019re not actually from DC, but just like to claim they are so they can maintain relevancy when meeting people outside of Maryland. So, as you venture into the \u201creal world,\u201d here are 5 reasons to avoid these lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unfortunately, Bethesda and Potomac are not in DC \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The closest you\u2019ve been to living in DC has been going to brunch in Georgetown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just because your parents work in fancy DC offices doesn\u2019t mean you live there<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you have to cross a state line to get to DC, that means you don\u2019t live there<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If your license plate says \u201cMaryland,\u201d that means you live there<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing all students in the Whitman area love doing in their free time is saying that they\u2019re from \u201cDC,\u201d especially putting the two letters in their Instagram bio to be proud of their DC heritage. But that\u2019s the catch: they\u2019re not actually from DC, but just like to claim they are so they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}