{"id":24794,"date":"2022-09-29T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24794"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:25:33","slug":"the-third-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24794","title":{"rendered":"The third explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has this ever happened to you? You think of some sort-of-famous person, maybe a celebrity, maybe somebody that you saw in a movie or a TV show years ago. You are curious as to what happened to them. So you look them up online to find out. And it turns out that today is their birthday.<\/p>\n<p>This has happened to me a surprising number of times.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that because it is their birthday, somehow you saw a mention of them online, but you didn&#8217;t consciously notice it. It could be that it is all just some kind of crazy coincidence. After all, coincidences happen.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could be that somehow, in some way that you don&#8217;t yet fully understand, the Universe is speaking to you. I like the third explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has this ever happened to you? You think of some sort-of-famous person, maybe a celebrity, maybe somebody that you saw in a movie or a TV show years ago. You are curious as to what happened to them. So you look them up online to find out. And it turns out that today is their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=24794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The third explanation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24795,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24794\/revisions\/24795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}