{"id":835,"date":"2010-03-31T03:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=835"},"modified":"2022-03-03T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T04:11:46","slug":"end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/31\/end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"End Of The World As We Know It&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yeah I know I know, what the heck am I doing spreading rumors about the unavoidable&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apocalypse\">&#8216;A&#8217; word<\/a>? Last weekend I watched&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012_%28film%29\">2012<\/a>, and last night it was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armageddon_%281998_film%29\">Armageddon<\/a>&#8221; on TV. On the internet there are reports of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/world\/story\/2010\/03\/31\/us-rhode-island-emergency.html\">record-breaking floods<\/a>, and then I hear the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052702304434404575150060526201230.html\">swarms of grasshoppers are taking over farmlands<\/a>&nbsp;in the next few weeks&#8230; Today I log on to my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\">internet portal<\/a>&nbsp;and find that now unknown&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yahooeditorspicks\/galleries\/72157623618461809\">scary sea monsters<\/a>&nbsp;with names like Bathynomus Giganteus are coming up from the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it&#8217;s been a while since I read The Bible, but aren&#8217;t these all signs of our imminent doom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise I just need to go find my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_the_End_of_the_World_as_We_Know_It_%28And_I_Feel_Fine%29\">REM CD<\/a>&nbsp;from my college days&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah I know I know, what the heck am I doing spreading rumors about the unavoidable&nbsp;&#8216;A&#8217; word? Last weekend I watched&nbsp;2012, and last night it was &#8220;Armageddon&#8221; on TV. On the internet there are reports of&nbsp;record-breaking floods, and then I hear the&nbsp;swarms of grasshoppers are taking over farmlands&nbsp;in the next few weeks&#8230; Today I log&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}