{"id":25794,"date":"2010-07-29T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/29\/the-end-is-near-2\/"},"modified":"2010-07-29T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:50:53","slug":"the-end-is-near-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/the-end-is-near-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The end is near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you think there is any connection between this:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/07\/9_months_23_days.php\">9 months, 23 days<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mark your calendars! The end of the world is nigh, and we&#8217;ve got a specific date: the Rapture will occur on 21 May, 2011, and the world ends on 21 October 2011. How do we know this? As near as I can tell, it&#8217;s pure numerology&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>and this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/07\/29\/that-killer-asteroid-you-heard-about-yesterday-we-knew-about-it-last-year\/\">That Killer Asteroid You Heard About Yesterday? We Knew About It Last Year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; there&#8217;s a giant asteroid out there called 1999 RQ36, and there&#8217;s a small chance it might hit us &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly not, but both are interesting reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, do you think there is any connection between this: 9 months, 23 days Mark your calendars! The end of the world is nigh, and we&#8217;ve got a specific date: the Rapture will occur on 21 May, 2011, and the world ends on 21 October 2011. How do we know this? As near as I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/the-end-is-near-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The end is near<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6I2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}