{"id":1515,"date":"2008-11-05T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/11\/05\/chance-or-fate\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T17:08:08","slug":"chance-or-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Chance or Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/michael-manuel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" title=\"Michael &amp; Manuel near Torremegia\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/michael-manuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael &amp; Manuel near Torremegia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyinnorfolk.com\">Sally<\/a> and I were walking the Camino <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Via de la Plata\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Via_de_la_Plata\">Via de la Plata<\/a> from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Seville\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.3772222222,-5.98694444444&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=37.3772222222,-5.98694444444%20%28Seville%29&amp;t=h\">Seville<\/a> a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel &amp; Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Santiago, Chile\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-33.45,-70.6666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=-33.45,-70.6666666667%20%28Santiago%2C%20Chile%29&amp;t=h\">Santiago<\/a> and in fact when Sally left in Los Santos, I walked with them from Villafranca<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Villafranca\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villafranca\"><\/a> to Merida. However, due to the office sale in Cambridge we parted company in Merida.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Em and Mark were walking from Roncesvalle to Santiago&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/mark-and-emily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" title=\"Mark &amp; Em at Stansted\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/mark-and-emily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark &amp; Em at Stansted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now get this when Em and Mark were collecting their Compostellas in Santiago who should they meet\u00a0 at the office? Yep Manuel. Now what is the chances of that happening?<\/p>\n<p class=\"scribefire-powered\">Powered by ScribeFire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur. When Sally and I were walking the Camino Via de la Plata from Seville a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel &amp; Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to Santiago and in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[108,117,173],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-camino","tag-chance","tag-fate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}