{"id":1179,"date":"2006-07-20T04:30:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/07\/california-humor.html"},"modified":"2006-07-20T04:30:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T04:30:53","slug":"california-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/07\/california-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"California Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Midwesterners don’t take earthquakes lightly. Our family has been in one, and I thought it was spooky. Give me a tornado anytime: get to the basement and by and large you’ll be safe. So, when we checked in to our hotel in San Dimas, near Azusa Pacific, we noted this sign — I guess it is a Californian sense of humor.
\n\"Earthquake<\/a>
\nOnly in Newport Beach can you encounter a “triangle” that is a “square” and have a round building on which that triangle square is located. It was confusing. Spencer Burke thought it was funny, too. He tried to explain it to us, but we preferred to think it was California kookiness.
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