{"id":152,"date":"2011-05-21T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:41:41","slug":"have-you-done-a-nose-count-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/21\/have-you-done-a-nose-count-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you done a nose count this morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eeZAb1YuD5Y\/TdfhBm6IghI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/7BLWPrWD5ws\/s1600\/DKL0110AX.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-eeZAb1YuD5Y\/TdfhBm6IghI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/7BLWPrWD5ws\/s1600\/DKL0110AX.JPG\"><\/a>Looks like everyone I know is still here. Hummmm, It&#8217;s possible that I&#8217;ve been hanging out with the wrong crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Traffic maps still show that traffic is insane. Either the Apocalypse event didn&#8217;t happen OR LA is full of people that got left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the evidence I&#8217;m guessing that Preacher Campings&#8217; version of <em>The Rapture<\/em> did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a little sorry for some of his followers.<br \/>\nThere was a radio interview with a young couple who had budgeted their savings to this end date.<\/p>\n<p>They had both quit their jobs to spent their last months passing out doomsday pamphlets.<\/p>\n<p>I remember thinking, On the one hand, that&#8217;s commitment, on the other hand what are they going to do the day after doomsday?<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not terribly religious in any traditional sense, I do feel sorry for people like this. These folks have had their faith essentially used against them, it must cause a terrible crises of faith.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope that someone in the religious community is keeping an eye on Preacher Campings followers in the event that some of them try to resolve the conflict by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>As to the end of the world?? I suppose that we&#8217;ll just have to wait for the 12\/21\/2012 expiration date.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-6phespKxyUw\/TdfhCTiWZxI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/h1MRP_Z-k5E\/s1600\/mayan-calendar-2012-300x284.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-6phespKxyUw\/TdfhCTiWZxI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/h1MRP_Z-k5E\/s1600\/mayan-calendar-2012-300x284.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If the Maya were right, the Summer of 2013 should be great!<\/p>\n<p>Uncrowded beaches, post apocalyptic anarchy, people running around in animal skins, you know, all the stuff that we&#8217;ve seen for years in movies<\/p>\n<p>Until then party on folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like everyone I know is still here. Hummmm, It&#8217;s possible that I&#8217;ve been hanging out with the wrong crowd. The LA Traffic maps still show that traffic is insane. Either the Apocalypse event didn&#8217;t happen OR LA is full of people that got left behind. Based on the evidence I&#8217;m guessing that Preacher Campings&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/21\/have-you-done-a-nose-count-this-morning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Have you done a nose count this morning?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-things-that-make-you-say-hum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}