{"id":41493,"date":"2021-05-12T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41493"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T14:01:37","slug":"coincidences-i-look-like-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/coincidences-i-look-like-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidences: I look like George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about life and coincidence: the tutor relates a funny story.<\/h2>\n<p>To protect the name(s) of the innocent, the name used wasn&#8217;t actually George. Yet this did really happen.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe other day I was walking by a high school. Outside were some kids I could tell were cool. Their wide classroom door was open: obviously they were free to range between inside and out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey George,&#8221; one of them raised his head and shouted, in my direction.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not George, so didn&#8217;t respond. Anyway, I was still about 100 feet away, but approaching.<\/p>\n<p>As I closed in, I could tell the kid was talking to me. &#8220;Sorry,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You look just like George.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No worries,&#8221; I smiled.<\/p>\n<p>The kid and his friends re-entered the open door to their classroom. I heard him say into the room, &#8220;Hey George&#8230;there&#8217;s another one of you outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can only be flattered: George is most likely about 30 years younger than I. For both our sakes, I hope George is good-looking(?)\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about life and coincidence: the tutor relates a funny story. To protect the name(s) of the innocent, the name used wasn&#8217;t actually George. Yet this did really happen. The other day I was walking by a high school. Outside &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/coincidences-i-look-like-george\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coincidences: I look like George<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coincidence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41495,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions\/41495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}