{"id":72,"date":"2008-07-29T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-02-19T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:55:06","slug":"earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA had an earthquake today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a case of life imitating art, I was sitting at my desk when I felt the chair move.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just the chair. \u00a0Everything was shaking.<\/em><\/p>\n

A coffee mug rattled on the desk. \u00a0Books toppled like dominoes on a shelf above me, knocking a baseball onto the floor. \u00a0A picture fell off the wall.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Earthquake!” I thought aloud as I scrambled towards the doorjamb out of habit and instinct. I was a bit dazed but scared sober from the adrenaline rush of the quake. \u00a0People say I’m crazy, but I actually enjoy the thrill of a good California earthquake as long as nothing breaks and no one gets hurt.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the tremors subsided I started to put my apartment back together. \u00a0Walking over to retrieve the baseball I stopped when I saw the signature on it. \u00a0David Ortiz.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was then that I realized the significance of the moment, which was odd since it took something different for me to notice the similarities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you predict the future in a deleted scene<\/a>, did it really happen at all?<\/p>\n

Or perhaps my future self had something to do with it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA had an earthquake today. In a case of life imitating art, I was sitting at my desk when I felt the chair move. It wasn’t just the chair. \u00a0Everything was shaking. A coffee mug rattled on the desk. \u00a0Books toppled like dominoes on a shelf above me, knocking a baseball onto the floor. \u00a0A…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-1a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1949,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/2020-hindsight-commentary-gimme-three-steps-four-hours-in-washington\/","url_meta":{"origin":72,"position":0},"title":"2020 Hindsight Commentary: Gimme Three Steps, Four Hours in Washington","author":"LBDG","date":"April 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm revisiting Timely Persuasion 12 years after releasing it \/ 17 years after writing it \/ 6000+ days since I jokingly told Jon Mack \"maybe I'll write a book...\" with a new round of fresh eyed commentary. 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