{"id":2952,"date":"2008-07-26T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-28T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:49:32","slug":"small-town-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/small-town-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Town Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/Pacifica%20hill.jpg\" alt=\"Pacifica Hill\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"338\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"450\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><em>From the hill behind our house in Pacifica, CA I can see the fog rolling in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;ve made it big when you get profiled on the front page of your small hometown paper. Readers of the Pacifica Tribune had to wade through an uncritical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificatribune.com\/ci_9900389\">profile of me<\/a> before they could get to the real news of the week &#8212; about the biodiesel power generating plant the town wants to build down the street. There&#8217;s nothing new in the Tribune&#8217;s valentine interview, but their amiable writer succeeded in crafting an accurate mini-bio of me that puts my short life onto one page. I&#8217;m quoted as saying:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPeople often have this idea that money is what is preventing them from doing their dreams. That&#8217;s very rarely the case. It usually has to do with fear: fear of failure, fear of what people will think. You can go awful far without many resources on the low financial road. In fact, you actually learn more that way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have a choice, take the cheap route, always.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This local town which granted me my 15 minutes of small time fame is Pacifica, California. We are a by-passed gem on Highway 1 south of San Francisco. The summer fog and cold keeps the outsiders away. We&#8217;ve got surf beaches and lots of hill trails, but not much else to interest visitors. The paper is so desperate for excitement it is reduced to headlining a guy who works at his desk all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the hill behind our house in Pacifica, CA I can see the fog rolling in. You know you&#8217;ve made it big when you get profiled on the front page of your small hometown paper. Readers of the Pacifica Tribune &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/small-town-fame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/kevinkelly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}