{"id":495,"date":"2007-02-21T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T09:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2007\/02\/21\/coincidence\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T09:08:11","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/02\/21\/coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on the way to work I saw someone reading <em>Life, the Universe and Everything<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/a\/douglas-adams\/\">Douglas Adams<\/a>, RIP.<br \/>\nOn the way home last night, I saw a completely different someone reading <em>The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul<\/em>, also by Douglas Adams.<br \/>\nNow, consider this: I live in a city where the English-speaking population is small enough that it only takes us three steps to get to Kevin Bacon, if you know what I mean. Furthermore, the members of that population who indulge in Adams are, I thought, all people I already know, several of them intimately (though not Biblically). Finally, both books in question are from the 1980s, so it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re hot new releases.<br \/>\nSomeone is trying to tell me something.<br \/>\nIn the words of Marvin, &#8220;just because you&#8217;re paranoid, it doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re not out to get you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday on the way to work I saw someone reading Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams, RIP. On the way home last night, I saw a completely different someone reading The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, also by Douglas Adams. Now, consider this: I live in a city where the English-speaking population &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2007\/02\/21\/coincidence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coincidence?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}