{"id":836,"date":"2017-10-25T02:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T09:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cetinkoc.net\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2023-05-17T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:50:02","slug":"the-impossible-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/the-impossible-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"The impossible happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Russell reports: Many years ago, when I was still living in NYC, I had a subscriber, a Swiss man named Jay Pfister. Jay owned a chemical company. During the early 1930s Jay sold his company to American Cyanamid. That sale made Jay quite wealthy, and he had a home in NYC and one in La Jolla. It was Jay who first told me about La Jolla. Jay suggested that I leave Manhattan and enjoy &#8220;a better life&#8221; in La Jolla. I thought a lot about Jay&#8217;s advice. In 1961 I followed his advice, and it proved to be one of the best pieces of advice I&#8217;ve ever received.<\/p>\n<p>One day I met Jay at the Plaza Hotel on 59th Street. We were sipping coffee, when Jay said, &#8220;I want to tell you an interesting story. My apartment overlooks the Hudson River. Last Sunday I was looking out over the Hudson, and I saw two large boats heading towards each other. They continued to close in on each other, and I said to myself, &#8216;This is ridiculous&#8217;. The captains must be drunk. If they continue on this path, they&#8217;re surely going to crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked wide-eyed and asked Jay, &#8220;So what happened?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Answered, Jay, &#8220;The &#8216;impossible&#8217; happened. The two boats continued toward each other, and they crashed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Russell reports: Many years ago, when I was still living in NYC, I had a subscriber, a Swiss man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humans","category-logic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cetinkayakoc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}