{"id":699,"date":"2009-05-25T00:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2009-05-25T00:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T07:49:25","slug":"coincidence-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence, part one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l_r_13_edit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l_r_13_edit.jpg\" alt=\"l_r_13_edit\" title=\"l_r_13_edit\" width=\"500\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l_r_13_edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l_r_13_edit-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Love and Rockets, #13 by Jaime and Beto Hernandez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By coincidence, the creator of the above publication came up to me when I was 14 years old and told me I reminded him of a character named Maggie from a comic book called Love and Rockets. Interestingly, the story of said character eerily mirrored my life for the next six years, love life and all. I related very closely to this fictional world of SoCal Chican@ punks, cholos and weird, spooky unexplained happenings &#8211; it brought me a bit of solace during the dark days of my teen years.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RfUm2G4-RWg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RfUm2G4-RWg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong>Mr. Freeze-Dr. Know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not knowing there were any connections between the above story and incident, I saw this band one and half years later after reading my first Love and Rockets comic book (which was bought at a store called Y-Que.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love and Rockets, #13 by Jaime and Beto Hernandez By coincidence, the creator of the above publication came up to me when I was 14 years old and told me I reminded him of a character named Maggie from a comic book called Love and Rockets. Interestingly, the story of said character eerily mirrored my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coincidence, part one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,29,17,3],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}