Yes. In Alaska the sun shines all day and night for the entire year. The sun revolves around it.<\/p>\n
2) What is Alaska like?<\/strong><\/p>\n Alaska? There are so many parts. Even though Prudhoe Bay is over 1500 miles from Ketchikan, you’re just going to lump them in together? Would you ask someone in Atlanta what it was like in Fargo? That would be less distance. Look at this:<\/p>\n 3) What did you parents do for work there?<\/strong><\/p>\n My Dad worked for Santa Claus and my Mom worked at Sizzler.<\/p>\n 4) Did you ever see any bears?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, they were very friendly after I told them I was related to Timothy Treadwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n 5) What did you do for fun there?<\/strong><\/p>\n Mostly plot terrorist attacks against the contiguous\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n 6) How are you cold right now, aren’t you from Alaska?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, since I grew up in a cold environment my genes have been permanently altered. I’m actually glad I wore this V-neck into this thunderstorm. It is brilliant reasoning to think one might become cold not based a lack of insulation, body fat, bone density, or several other factors, and instead assume that they are permanently conditioned to the average December Low of where they were raised like some lame X-Men character. Well done.<\/p>\n 7) Did you go to school up there?<\/strong><\/p>\n No. Like most children in Alaska, I received a scholarship to go to kindergarten at K.U. Then I chose a boarding school in the closest neighboring state, which was 2000 miles away. I would commute back to Alaska on weekends. I actually found it more convenient to be born in another state as well, but I was still able to get Alaska on my birth certificate because Jimmy Hoffa was buried in my backyard and I knew how to pull some moves.<\/p>\n 8) What do you think about Sarah Palin?<\/strong><\/p>\n I love Sarah Palin. As an Alaskan I am contractually obligated to loyally support anyone who has lived in my state, no matter how embarrassing or irrelevant they may be. I am actually a huge supporter of the guy who busted the windshield of my car with a baseball bat when I was in high school as well.\u00a0Are you from Alabama? What do you think about George Wallace and Foghorn Leghorn?<\/p>\n 9) Do you still have family up there?<\/strong><\/p>\n No. Like most people my entire extended family travels by caravan, and when one of us moves the rest follow and set up a makeshift community of alcoholics.<\/p>\n 10) Was it really cold there?<\/strong><\/p>\n No. As you can see by this map, Alaska is an island in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n Bonus: How long have you been on the West Coast?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Uh, look at this again and get back to me.<\/p>\n I get asked at least one of these questions every time I meet a stranger and tell them I’m from Alaska. 1) So, is it like, light all the time? Yes. In Alaska the sun shines all day and night for the entire year. The sun revolves around it. 2) What is Alaska like? Alaska? …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Alaska_compared_to_the_United_States_Map\"](\"https:\/\/mattralston.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alaska_compared_to_the_United_States_Map.png\")
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