{"id":749,"date":"2011-08-23T16:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=749"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:05:53","slug":"oddities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/oddities","title":{"rendered":"Oddities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So three hours ago I was sitting here at my desk when I noticed the floor was shaking. Figured something heavy was being wheeled down the hallway&#8230; something REALLY heavy! Conference room windows were shaking. Then&#8230; I realized nothing was being wheeled down the hallway. We were having a goddamn EARTHQUAKE! Wow!<\/p>\n<p>Goodness, we don&#8217;t get those around here, in the DC area! Hit 6 or so on the Richter scale!<\/p>\n<p>*ring, ring, ring*<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hang on, I&#8217;m getting a call. *reads caller ID* It&#8217;s from California!<\/p>\n<p>*answers*<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*hangs up*<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s weird.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, man, what a hot day! It&#8217;s like 115 degrees! Doesn&#8217;t usually get this hot here in the DC area.<\/p>\n<p>*ring, ring, ring*<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hang on, I&#8217;m getting a call. *reads caller ID* It&#8217;s from Arizona!<\/p>\n<p>*answers*<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*hangs up*<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Uh oh! There&#8217;s a hurricane heading RIGHT THIS WAY! We&#8217;d better get ready. Winds are over 100mph! We don&#8217;t usually get hurricanes here in the DC area.<\/p>\n<p>*ring, ring, ring*<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hang on, I&#8217;m getting a call. *reads caller ID* It&#8217;s from Florida!<\/p>\n<p>*answers*<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*hangs up*<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, that&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>WTF?! It&#8217;s a huge ass BLIZZARD! It&#8217;s like 10 degrees and we&#8217;re getting over three feet of snow! We don&#8217;t usually get this here in the DC area.<\/p>\n<p>*ring, ring, ring*<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hang on, I&#8217;m getting a call. *reads caller ID* It&#8217;s from Vermont!<\/p>\n<p>*answers*<\/p>\n<p>Hello?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*hangs up*<\/p>\n<p>Hmph!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>How about you all just come to DC then?<\/p>\n<p>*sometime later*<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eww, it&#8217;s so humid here!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;There are severe thunderstorms every night?!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Gah, I&#8217;ve been stuck in traffic on the beltway for three hours and have only moved 20 feet!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What do you mean &#8216;one way street?&#8217; They&#8217;re all one-way streets!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s so many trees! I can&#8217;t stop sneezing!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What do you mean Metro is single tracking?!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The electricity won&#8217;t be back on for several days?&#8230; Who the hell is Pepco?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Oh, my God, there&#8217;s stinkbugs and mosquitos everywhere!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Who would want to live here?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p><i>This has been <b>Day 92<\/b> of the <b>100 Days of Summer, Round 11<\/b>.<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Summertime!\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So three hours ago I was sitting here at my desk when I noticed the floor was shaking. Figured something heavy was being wheeled down the hallway&#8230; something REALLY heavy! Conference room windows were shaking. Then&#8230; I realized nothing was being wheeled down the hallway. We were having a goddamn EARTHQUAKE! Wow! Goodness, we don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2011\/08\/23\/oddities\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oddities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-100-days-of-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}