{"id":2496,"date":"2019-07-14T06:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2019-07-14T06:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T14:19:35","slug":"shaken-before-i-stirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/shaken-before-i-stirred\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaken before I stirred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Three-Lakes-Earthquake.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2497\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Three-Lakes-Earthquake-300x211.png\" alt=\"Three Lakes shaker\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Three-Lakes-Earthquake-300x211.png 300w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Three-Lakes-Earthquake-768x539.png 768w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Three-Lakes-Earthquake.png 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The other night I was nearly tossed out of bed by an earthquake. That would be the Three Lakes Earthquake, epicentered just north of Seattle, July 12, 2019, 2:51 a.m. At magnitude 4.6, it wasn&#8217;t one for the record books, but it shook me pretty good. It was kind of a sideways heaving roller that really did almost throw me off my mattress. It didn&#8217;t last long, but in the darkness, listening to the metal gutters and downspouts rattling against the side of my house, my heart rate went up quite a few notches.<\/p>\n<p>I got up and went for my computer, coffee cup in hand. Sure enough, the USGS already had the quake pinpointed and mapped on its <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/uw61535372\/executive\">Pacific Northwest Seismic Network<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>All this shaking and rattling serves as great last-minute inspiration for me to complete my latest writing project. That would be my new novel, The Great Seattle Earthquake, now scheduled for release on July 31. Mark your calendar!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle-Fault.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle-Fault-300x192.png\" alt=\"Seattle Fault\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2498\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle-Fault-300x192.png 300w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle-Fault-768x492.png 768w, http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Seattle-Fault.png 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And while the other night&#8217;s temblor caused some excitement, it pales in comparison to the magnitude 7.8 terror I dreamed up for my story. Keep an eye out for future announcements and the book release, coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the other night&#8217;s temblor caused some excitement, it pales in comparison to the magnitude 7.8 terror I dreamed up for my story The Great Seattle Earthquake! <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/shaken-before-i-stirred\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,78],"tags":[426,432],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northwest-tales","category-seattle","tag-the-great-seattle-earthquake","tag-three-lakes-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomas-hopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}