{"id":622,"date":"2005-09-12T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/09\/12\/pawn-of-the-gods\/"},"modified":"2005-09-12T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T21:35:00","slug":"pawn-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/09\/12\/pawn-of-the-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawn of the Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was coming back from lunch today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/09\/12\/la.power.outage.ap\/index.html\">power went out<\/a>, an event which is usually not worth writing about.  Like most other people, I sat around outside, ate my tostada, and waited to see if I&#8217;d be lucky enough to be able to head home and make up for the sleep lost to insomnia last night.  Then it hit me &#8211; my car keys were still in my cubicle, twelve floors up.  As usual, God was playing games with me.  After an hour of waiting for the power to return I figured the boss could no longer complain if I left, so after borrowing a flashlight (all of the emergency lights failed and the stairwells were pitch black), I trekked up twelve hot and stuffy flights of stairs, providing entertainment to those folks still coming down, each of whom felt it necessary to laugh like a jolly fat man when told that I had left my keys in the office during lunch.  Little did I realize that the gods wouldn&#8217;t think humiliation was enough, and that only by turning the power on literally seconds after I opened the door from the twelfth floor staircase would they be satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy being amusement for the gods, but I suppose someone has to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was coming back from lunch today, the power went out, an event which is usually not worth writing about. Like most other people, I sat around outside, ate my tostada, and waited to see if I&#8217;d be lucky enough to be able to head home and make up for the sleep lost to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/09\/12\/pawn-of-the-gods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pawn of the Gods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}