{"id":793,"date":"2008-12-10T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/12\/10\/tuesday-night-response-from-the-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:31:00","slug":"tuesday-night-response-from-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/12\/10\/tuesday-night-response-from-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night &#8211; response from the cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_455238872\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<br \/>Funny how the cosmos work..\u00a0 In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vYmxvZ3MubXlzcGFjZS5jb20vaW5kZXguY2ZtP2Z1c2VhY3Rpb249YmxvZy52aWV3JmZyaWVuZElEPTEwNTEyMDE4MSZibG9nSUQ9NDU0NzA3NDA3\" target=\"_blank\">post <\/a>last Sunday. I said how i was putting my intention for finding something bigger and more fun to do in the way of outreach&#8230; I said: <em>Sometimes when you don&#8217;t know where to start.. the first step is just &#8216;putting it out there&#8217;.. for the cosmos to suggest something&#8230;<\/em>Well, it did come today.Totally out of the blue. . It&#8217;s\u00a0 a long shot.. so it&#8217;s too early to go into the details&#8230;. I will say it&#8217;s a short term\u00a0 weird science promotion gig.. The application process has questions like: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small><\/small><small><em>Is there anything that you would feel embarrassed or uncomfortable doing on TV?<\/em><em><\/em><em><\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>Do you possess any survival skills? If so, please enumerate them below. <br \/><\/em><em><\/em><em><\/em><em><br \/>What role would you play on a team\u2026 the devoted worker? The intellectual? The organizer? The <br \/>leader? The silent \u2018do as I\u2019m told\u2019 type? The \u2018court jester\u2019? The one who uses sex appeal? The boss? The manipulator?<\/em><em><\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>Which animal best represents you and why?<\/em><em><\/em><em> <br \/><\/em><em><\/em><em><br \/>Have you had to endure any hardships or tragedy in your life? If so, what personal strength did you use to get through it?<br \/><\/em><em><\/em><em><br \/>If someone made a movie about your life which actor would portray you and why?<\/em><em><\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>If you could have lunch with anyone who would it be and why? What kind of restaurant would you choose?<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em><\/em><em>If someone did your portrait and had only one color to use which color would it be and why?<br \/><\/em><em><\/em><em><br \/>If the world ended today and you were left alone to survive, describe some of the first steps you would take.<\/em><em><\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>Tell us something about yourself you don\u2019t want us to know.<\/em><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where this will go.. but I&#8217;m going to check it. The thing I wanted to relate was how reliable and wonderful the world is at answering you when you ask it the right question.I&#8217;ll keep you posted.. All for now&#8230; Nite all, nite Sam<br \/>-me\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how the cosmos work..\u00a0 In my post last Sunday. I said how i was putting my intention for finding something bigger and more fun to do in the way of outreach&#8230; I said: Sometimes when you don&#8217;t know where to start.. the first step is just &#8216;putting it out there&#8217;.. for the cosmos to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/12\/10\/tuesday-night-response-from-the-cosmos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday night &#8211; response from the cosmos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}