{"id":2699,"date":"2007-10-30T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T04:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/10\/earthquake\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T21:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T04:18:02","slug":"earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/10\/earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"EaRthQuAKe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been living in California for over a year now, but I&#8217;m still getting used to it. Earlier this evening, while on a video chat with Ted, I felt <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/eqinthenews\/2007\/nc40204628\/\">event nc40204628<\/a>. It was the longest earthquake I&#8217;ve ever experienced; I&#8217;m guessing the shaking lasted about 20 seconds. Of course with all other earthquakes I&#8217;ve felt, my first thought wasn&#8217;t that the cause of the motion was an earthquake. I&#8217;ve always blamed it on something else, like a quarry blast or someone else walking on a balcony, and then only realized later, after hearing from someone else, that it was actually an earthquake. This time, I thought my upstairs neighbors had dropped something or were jumping. It wasn&#8217;t until about 5-10 seconds into it that I realized what was actually going on. Of course my instincts aren&#8217;t really tuned to make me react, so after telling Ted I was in an earthquake, I stood up and <span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">looked<\/span> at the doorway, which I was pretty sure I was supposed to go to. But I assumed that by that time it was almost over, and just waited it out for several more seconds. When I thought it had stopped, I sat down, but was surprised to feel myself still swaying. I had to confirm by watching the swinging blinds that the motion wasn&#8217;t just in my head. <a href=\"http:\/\/tiffography.com\">Tiffany<\/a> had a similar experience, only she was watching swinging pots.<\/p>\n<p>And, just so you know how easily I&#8217;ve slid back into blogging, my first thought after it was all over was, &#8220;This will make a great blog entry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been living in California for over a year now, but I&#8217;m still getting used to it. Earlier this evening, while on a video chat with Ted, I felt event nc40204628. It was the longest earthquake I&#8217;ve ever experienced; I&#8217;m guessing the shaking lasted about 20 seconds. Of course with all other earthquakes I&#8217;ve felt, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2007\/10\/earthquake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EaRthQuAKe!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}