{"id":4786,"date":"2012-12-21T05:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2012-12-20T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T05:48:33","slug":"doomsday-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/12\/21\/doomsday-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Fire!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/doomsday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"354\" \/>The world didn&#8217;t end today.<\/p>\n<p>I almost hate writing something about the supposed end according to the Maya that was never real from the start. But I try seeing good even in ridiculous things. As goofy as it is giving credence to the belief that the world would end today, if you pretend it was supposed to <em>actually <\/em>happen &#8212; then we all got an extension on life!<\/p>\n<p>If we pretend those who believe in prophecies could even vaguely be right, then we all got a do-over. Not just a new year, but a new life &#8212; starting today! That&#8217;s a once in a lifetime kind of thing (or at least a reprieve until the next wacky doomsday prophecy comes along).<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;now that you have a second chance at all the things you think about doing but don&#8217;t, what are you actually going to do with your new life?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world didn&#8217;t end today. I almost hate writing something about the supposed end according to the Maya that was never real from the start. But I try seeing good even in ridiculous things. As goofy as it is giving credence to the belief that the world would end today, if you pretend it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}