{"id":1022,"date":"2010-01-02T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2011-01-24T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:12:22","slug":"happy-whoa-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2010\/01\/happy-whoa-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy WHOA! Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s January 1, 1966 in Buffalo, NY. I’m a really geeky little kid with a highly developed sense of guilt. On New Year’s Day I decide to go to church. Alone, since the rest of the family is sleeping. I get dressed and walk down the stairs. The EXACT INSTANT I set my foot on the floor at the bottom of the stairs, the whole house shakes!! I can see the tree from there, and every ornament is shaking back & forth.
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\nI am FREAKED OUT!<\/strong><\/em> I’m certain that God is speaking directly to me, sending me a message about just how bad I am. If I put that other foot on the floor, the whole house, with my family asleep upstairs, could just sink into the bowels of hell. <\/p>\n

What do I do? I turn tail and go back upstairs as quick as I can. I get under the covers in bed (did I bother to put my pajamas back on?), shaking. I probably said about a million prayers, quaking in fear the whole time. <\/p>\n

I don’t think I ever mentioned anything to my family; I didn’t want them to know just how bad I was, how close they’d come to a fiery death.<\/p>\n

When I returned to school after Christmas break, the science teacher asked if anyone had felt the rare earthquake on New Year’s Day. WHAT?!<\/strong> Earthquake?! <\/em> This is Buffalo! I had no knowledge at that point that Buffalo sat on a fault line — the ground had been completely stable all my life. No one else in class was apparently up & felt it, but I sure did. That earthquake is a documented fact<\/a> – it was a class 6!<\/p>\n

Much as I was hugely relieved that there was a scientific explanation for the jiggling tree, I think I was also just a tiny bit disappointed that I wasn’t powerful enough to shake the entire house with my behavior.
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\nYour turn – did you<\/em> feel that earthquake? Have any other weird, freaky childhood New Year’s memories?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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