{"id":1183,"date":"2009-01-05T07:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2009-01-05T07:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:05:37","slug":"countdown-to-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1183","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2009\/01\/04\/a-little-rant-about-that-2012-nonsense\/\">A little rant about that 2012 nonsense\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One reason the world will end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Maya, the world\u2019s greatest timekeepers ever, say it\u2019s all going to stop on December 21, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>gg rightly points out that <em>we<\/em> are the best timekeepers.  But I think this is not an issue of timekeeping.  The Mayan calendar runs its course, and then starts over again.  Does anyone seriously predict that the world will end on Dec 31 each year, because that&#8217;s when <em>our<\/em> calendars run out?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the world can&#8217;t end in 2012, when <em>Rush<\/em> has already foretold events of 2112 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little rant about that 2012 nonsense\u2026 One reason the world will end: The Maya, the world\u2019s greatest timekeepers ever, say it\u2019s all going to stop on December 21, 2012. gg rightly points out that we are the best timekeepers. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}