{"id":878,"date":"2007-10-22T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/10\/22\/fuego-2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:00:47","slug":"fuego-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2007\/10\/22\/fuego-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuego"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles is on fire again<\/a>; the TV coverage is pretty awesome, and the view from my office window of smoke pouring out of Malibu is something to see, particularly around sunset. It’s probably a bit callous to get any sort of enjoyment out of watching natural disasters, but quotes like the following<\/a> make it tough to have too much sympathy for people fleeing multi-million dollar homes:<\/p>\n

“We’re all scared to death and we have nowhere to go,” Susan Nuttall, 51, told The Associated Press as she sat in her black Mercedes<\/i> in a cul-de-sac after fleeing her condominium near the Pepperdine campus. She was wearing a bathrobe and holding her Chihuahua<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other news, the Goob and I made a trip to the Hollywood Bowl a couple of weeks ago to see Mr. Dave Matthews and his fine band put on a show. Kabobs from Daphne’s and satays from Thai Dishes started the evening out properly, and it only got better as Dave brought out guests including a rocker on the banjo (the dude played hard<\/i>), Jon Mayer, and finally Steven and Damian Marley. Quote of the night:<\/p>\n

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Me (while washing my hands in the bathroom): “Dude, I reek of pot and beer…”<\/p>\n

Random guy two sinks down: “That’s awesome man! Everyone<\/i> reeks of pot and beer!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Fuego\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fire, as seen by space. Image taken by NASA<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles is on fire again; the TV coverage is pretty awesome, and the view from my office window of smoke pouring out of Malibu is something to see, particularly around sunset. It’s probably a bit callous to get any sort of enjoyment out of watching natural disasters, but quotes like the following make it … Continue reading “Fuego”<\/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-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}