{"id":444,"date":"2003-12-22T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2003-12-22T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2003-12-22T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2003-12-22T18:40:12","slug":"65-they-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/12\/65-they-said\/","title":{"rendered":"6.5 they said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SO I just experienced an earthquake in a skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>It was very weird. I was just sitting there, eating my christmas cookies, and I started feeling very dizzy. I thought, &#8220;Have I eaten so much sugar that I am dizzy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It went on for a long time, and as I was trying to figure out what was happening, the exclamations of my co-workers peirced my consciousness. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t feel that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It dawned on me that that&#8217;s what people say when there is an earthquake. Why were they talking about earthquakes. OH my GoD! I was feeling an earthquake!<\/p>\n<p>It felt like the whole building was wobbling. OH man. I didn&#8217;t like the idea of being on the 10th floor of a 26th story building that was wobbling.<\/p>\n<p>And it kept wobbling. At this point a lot of people were jumping up and decided what to do. I jumped over to my friend&#8217;s cube.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt just like vertigo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like this. This is very scary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s worse at home, trust me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought, What is she talking about? Home would be way better than this! I am in the middle of a wobbling building!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been scared by an earthquake before&#8221; I told her.<\/p>\n<p>It did pass, thank god, and we all rushed to find out how big it was.<\/p>\n<p>6.5, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SO I just experienced an earthquake in a skyscraper. It was very weird. I was just sitting there, eating my christmas cookies, and I started feeling very dizzy. I thought, &#8220;Have I eaten so much sugar that I am dizzy?&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/12\/65-they-said\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/12\/65-they-said\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}