{"id":804,"date":"2008-02-20T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/804"},"modified":"2010-06-01T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:02:51","slug":"its-a-small-world-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/804","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Small World After All&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so get this.\u00a0\u00a0 I was just talking to my friend Matt and was telling him that I was watching the latest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_Biggest_Loser\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Biggest Loser<\/a>.\u00a0 Then he told me to pause it because he had something interesting to tell me.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Matt and I first met on one of the turtle forums I visit quite a lot.\u00a0 We got to know each other over our love of turtles and became friends from there.\u00a0 Like most online communities we also have a few friends from the forums in common.<\/p>\n<p>He told me that one of the girls I know on the forums knows one of the guys on The Biggest Loser and was actually ON that particular episode I was watching (the one where the contestants went home for a week).\u00a0\u00a0 So I quickly went back in the show to look at the moment he was talking about and sure enough, THERE SHE WAS!<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is, I had already watched that part of the show and the girl had actually caught my eye.\u00a0\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember what I thought exactly at that moment but when Matt told me what part of the show she was in I knew exactly where to go back to because I remembered seeing her&#8230; only I didn&#8217;t know it was her at the time.\u00a0 Bizarre, huh?<\/p>\n<p>That really goes to show you just how small our world really is.\u00a0\u00a0 Here I am, a Canadian girl sitting in the Netherlands chatting online with my friend in Portland who tells me that a mutual online friend of ours is IN the TV show that I am watching right at that very moment!!<\/p>\n<p>Crazy shit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok so get this.\u00a0\u00a0 I was just talking to my friend Matt and was telling him that I was watching the latest episode of The Biggest Loser.\u00a0 Then he told me to pause it because he had something interesting to tell me. You see, Matt and I first met on one of the turtle forums &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[875,113,14],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-life-in-nl","tag-funny-shit","tag-matt","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}