{"id":8040,"date":"2012-12-08T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2012-12-08T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T17:07:44","slug":"armagideon-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/armagideon-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Armagideon Time (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Socorro, NM, May 95 (photo AS)\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Socorro-NM-May-95-photo-AS.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/335151\/armagideon-time-again-andrew-stuttaford\">Corne<\/a>r:<\/p>\n<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/9730618\/Mayan-apocalypse-panic-spreads-as-December-21-nears.html\">reports<\/a> on the approach of the latest doomsday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year \u201cLong Count\u201d Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.<\/p>\n<p>The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.<\/p>\n<p>In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve gone from one a month to one a day,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) \u2026 I\u2019m going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It\u2019s just in case anybody\u2019s right.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m going out to dinner that night. Hoping that it\u2019ll be easier to get a reservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner: Here we go again. The Daily Telegraph reports on the approach of the latest doomsday: Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year \u201cLong Count\u201d Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/armagideon-time-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[362,511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8050,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}