{"id":7654,"date":"2005-01-21T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/21\/other-lives.html"},"modified":"2005-01-21T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T16:28:39","slug":"other_lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/other_lives.html","title":{"rendered":"Other lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who hasn&#8217;t wondered how their life might not have changed had events, or decisions we made, been different?<\/p>\n<p>Craig Robinson has actually gone to the trouble of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipflopflyin.com\/whatif\/\" target=\"_blank\">speculating out several branching timelines<\/a>, both in his past and into his future.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s sort of a fascination to it that makes me both want to do something similar and shy away from it.  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