{"id":184,"date":"2011-05-24T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frees.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:45:51","slug":"theres-an-explanation-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frees.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s an Explanation for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the news about the tragic happenings in Joplin, Missouri last night, I heard many of the survivors cite the commonly accepted reason for their getting through the tornado: &#8220;God was watching out for me.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t help wondering, wasn&#8217;t it God who sent the storm their way in the first place? The newscaster cleared it up for me: &#8220;I guess Mother Nature really had it in for these people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Come on, humans. Tornadoes happen for non-supernatural reasons. And to paraphrase Randy Newman: Some people get lost in the storm. Some people get away all right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the news about the tragic happenings in Joplin, Missouri last night, I heard many of the survivors cite the commonly accepted reason for their getting through the tornado: &#8220;God was watching out for me.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t help wondering, wasn&#8217;t it God who sent the storm their way in the first place? The newscaster cleared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes_rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frees.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}