{"id":26,"date":"2004-07-24T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:10:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T06:10:48","slug":"shake-rattle-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Shake, Rattle, and Roll!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a mild earthquake, 6.4, a couple of days ago.  This actually was stronger than usual.   Earthquakes, no matter how small, always send my heart racing. ( I was in the Alaska earthquake in the early &#8217;60s.)  Whenever we have a &#8220;tremor&#8221;, it reminds me of my first week on island.  There we were, living in a Quonset hut.  A typhoon was hitting the island.  An earthquake hit as well.  And to top things off, there was a murder of a babysitter on Kadena.  Police dogs tracked the suspect through the empty hut next to ours.  All I could remember thinking was, &#8220;what kind of place have you brought us to Dad!&#8221;  Luckily, tremors are rare and murders even rarer.  Typhoons are just a part of the yearly cycle and usually not that bad, at least not anything like Typhoon Pamela (May, 1976) which totally demolished Guam.  And you guessed it, I was there!!!      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a mild earthquake, 6.4, a couple of days ago. This actually was stronger than usual. Earthquakes, no matter how small, always send my heart racing. ( I was in the Alaska earthquake in the early &#8217;60s.) Whenever we have a &#8220;tremor&#8221;, it reminds me of my first week on island. There we were, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-notes-2004","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}