{"id":3556,"date":"2011-03-11T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/photocardblog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T14:38:42","slug":"om-random-points-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-random-points-home\/","title":{"rendered":"OM :: The Random Points You Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/feb-18-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"feb-18-2011\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/feb-18-2011.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/feb-18-2011-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nI was going to write another moment this morning, but with the news of the 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan, all moments seem to fade to the background.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe randomness of this makes us all aware of how alike we are.  Can you relate to a tsunami if you live in Nebraska?  Probably not, but you can understand the random and indiscriminate devastation of a tornado.  Have you experienced a hurricane if you live in the middle of Canada?  No, but you know how a blizzard can be dangerous.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy moment is letting the small stuff fall away today and remembering what I am so lucky to have&#8230; a place to call home.  Sending good thoughts and hope to all the people and animals that will be affected by this earthquake and its ripple effects.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center>:::<\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamodestuffblog.com\/2010\/04\/organizing-meet-up-om-one-moment-wanna.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft height=\" src=\"http:\/\/i748.photobucket.com\/albums\/xx125\/alamodestuff\/OM_alamodemeetupbutton.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"om [one moment] meet up\" width=\"139\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOM is *one moment* and is a meetup designed to notice &amp; relish a moment in everyday life.  The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alamodestuffblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a la mode stuff<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you&#8217;ll be taken to Linda&#8217;s post explaining it all.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/om-random-points-home\/\"><\/div><script>\r\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\r\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1331825;\r\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\r\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write another moment this morning, but with the news of the 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan, all moments seem to fade to the background. The randomness of this makes us all aware of how alike we are. Can you relate to a tsunami if you live in Nebraska? Probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\r\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\r\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1331825;\r\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\r\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}