{"id":31935,"date":"2026-02-01T22:28:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=31935"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:46:35","slug":"just-a-few-small-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/just-a-few-small-earthquakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Few Small Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We probably looked like an odd couple <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Pasadena had very short hair <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And my hair was thick and shoulder length <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which retained its rough bleached appearance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I liked this style as I could choose not to shave <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pasadena&#8217;s hair was brown almost black <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although she had deep doe green eyes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither of us worked and hung around the beach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selling cheap souvenirs and surfing shirts <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And occasionally manning Mike&#8217;s soda stall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another life we both worked in the hills<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking advantage of our considerable talents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was situated high above the southern city freeway<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where we met by chance about five years ago <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And although well paid we had both grown disenchanted <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of our lack of progression upwards <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which we considered was well deserved <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technically we did not leave the Institute <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But were retained on a glorified sabbatical <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which apart from certain agreed conditions <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suited the lifestyle that we had chosen for ourselves <br><br><br><br>Pasadena and Billy Blue   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We probably looked like an odd couple As Pasadena had very short hair And my hair was thick and shoulder length Which retained its rough bleached appearance I liked this style as I could choose not to shave Pasadena&#8217;s hair was brown almost black Although she had deep doe green eyes Neither of us worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31943,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31935\/revisions\/31943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}