{"id":1432,"date":"2011-08-23T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/earthquake-seriously\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T14:46:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T18:46:53","slug":"earthquake-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/earthquake-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake, seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on the 10th floor in Progress Energy&#8217;s TPP building in downtown Raleigh, and we were SHAKIN&#8217; for about 7 seconds today around 2pm.  It felt like maybe a big truck hit the building or heavy equipment was operating on a nearby floor.  Totally surreal&#8230; Everyone popped up out of shortcubeville like gophers.  A few of us headed outside for a bit, and confirmed with spouses and kids that they felt it too.  CNN reports the center was near Richmond, VA but was felt in NYC.  An hour later we were back to work, but certainly on edge!  Strange&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on the 10th floor in Progress Energy&#8217;s TPP building in downtown Raleigh, and we were SHAKIN&#8217; for about 7 seconds today around 2pm. It felt like maybe a big truck hit the building or heavy equipment was operating on a nearby floor. Totally surreal&#8230; Everyone popped up out of shortcubeville like gophers. A few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/earthquake-seriously\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earthquake, seriously?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,59],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","tag-earthquake","tag-raleigh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-n6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2832,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2019\/raleigh-diamond-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":1432,"position":0},"title":"Raleigh Diamond Life","author":"m","date":"May 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"You rule in the way that I move... 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