{"id":3675,"date":"2012-08-26T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2012-08-26T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:05:45","slug":"waiting-on-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/history\/waiting-on-doomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a great article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/08\/ff_apocalypsenot\">Apocalypse Not: Here\u2019s Why You Shouldn\u2019t Worry About End Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give it a read, it&#8217;s filled with great quotes of\u00a0harbingers\u00a0of doom, like the worst President of the latter half the 20th Century, James Earl Carter III telling us back in 1977: &#8220;We could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the of end of the next decade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more of this prattle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3292\">check out the &#8220;predictions&#8221; from the first Lenin&#8217;s Birthday celebration, also known as &#8220;Earth Day.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/sigs\/gen-sigs8.html\">As I put it quite some time ago<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;Between Global Thermonuclear War with the Soviet Union, Global Cooling, the Population Bomb, DDT, AIDS, the Elbola virus, a half dozen other doomsday issues, and now Global Warming, it&#8217;s like living in one long 1970&#8217;s disaster film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a great article called Apocalypse Not: Here\u2019s Why You Shouldn\u2019t Worry About End Times Give it a read, it&#8217;s filled with great quotes of\u00a0harbingers\u00a0of doom, like the worst President of the latter half the 20th Century, James Earl Carter III telling us back in 1977: &#8220;We could use up all the proven reserves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[414,621],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","tag-incompetent","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-Xh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}