{"id":57806,"date":"2019-03-13T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=57806"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T14:16:31","slug":"29-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/29-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"29 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op9m8SouajU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Evening classes at Wichita State University were abruptly cancelled Tuesday evening, March 13, 1990, because of a tornado warning. There was no obvious threatening weather visible from the campus, so the Fortran instructor and I chatted for a while in the student union basement. Back in Michigan where he came from, he told me, they had <i>real<\/i> monster tornadoes, not the tame little wimpy ones that frolic on the prairie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_1990_Central_United_States_tornado_outbreak#The_Hesston_and_Goessel_Tornado_Family\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yeah, right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening classes at Wichita State University were abruptly cancelled Tuesday evening, March 13, 1990, because of a tornado warning. There was no obvious threatening weather visible from the campus, so the Fortran instructor and I chatted for a while in the student union basement. Back in Michigan where he came from, he told me, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/29-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;29 years ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life-adventures","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-f2m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57810,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57806\/revisions\/57810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}