{"id":87,"date":"2007-08-21T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T03:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-02-14T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:37:26","slug":"fires-and-bar-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Fires and Bar Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked my one year anniversary in Boston, so now that that is done with, I can finally get around to seeing Emily. Emily is the one person I knew in Boston before I moved here. She&#8217;s a college friend of a high school friend of friend from back home. She&#8217;s also his x, I told her not to date him (some friend of friend I turned out to be), but I was right, we bonded. We&#8217;ve been trying to meet up for a year now, and well, since I couldn&#8217;t make a concert Saturday night due to being in Rhode Island (post coming), Bar Trivia it was. Our team, comprised of Emily, her BF, and some other guys won! I contributed two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Whole Foods is the grocery store under SEC investigation.<\/li>\n<li>Sao Paulo is most definitely in the Southern Hemisphere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Which means they all knew their stuff. It was a fun time, and on the way back I drove right past a house fire in progress. Well the first cop pulled up a few car lengths behind me while I was stopped at a light. I had pulled well over to let him pass and he stopped, and then I heard more sirens (upon closer inspection fire truck sirens) so I started looking around and low and behold the back side of the house nearest the corner was in flames. I wasn&#8217;t there long enough to grab a picture so you&#8217;ll have to settle for a map (its the one the arrow is pointing at).<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=142+Harvard+St,+Medford,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02155,+United+States&#038;sll=42.405292,-71.107467&#038;sspn=0.00121,0.002057&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=h&#038;om=1&#038;s=AARTsJp6a6Bx_85GZFUEpF_Yp2xuAET3Lg&#038;ll=42.405226,-71.107571&#038;spn=0.000693,0.00114&#038;z=19&#038;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=142+Harvard+St,+Medford,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02155,+United+States&#038;sll=42.405292,-71.107467&#038;sspn=0.00121,0.002057&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=h&#038;om=1&#038;ll=42.405226,-71.107571&#038;spn=0.000693,0.00114&#038;z=19&#038;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left;font-size:small\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looked like everyone was out of the house, and well The rest of the drive home I was seeing trucks headed that way, so hopefully it will all turn out alright. I was just really surprised to turn my head around and see a fire not 25 meters away. One of the things I never considered about actually living in a city is the increased frequency of emergency vehicle sightings, but I guess it makes sense, more people, more stuff to go wrong. Also, I live 2 blocks from a fire station and a hospital, so that may be inflating the numbers a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked my one year anniversary in Boston, so now that that is done with, I can finally get around to seeing Emily. Emily is the one person I knew in Boston before I moved here. She&#8217;s a college friend of a high school friend of friend from back home. She&#8217;s also his x, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}