{"id":175960,"date":"2020-10-12T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/12\/signs-of-the-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T22:59:00","slug":"signs-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/12\/signs-of-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Ted Cruz is appearing virtually. He has tested negative for COVID but has been self-quarantining after coming into contact with Sen. Mike Lee&#8230;who tested positive and delivered his in-person maskless opening statement in the hearing room.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HallieJackson\/status\/1315660719350833155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>We Are Doomed<\/i><\/div>\n<p>OK, imagine a situation where there are two people in a similar situation.<\/p>\n<p>One behaves responsibly, and the other acts likes an asshole.<\/p>\n<p>One of the people is Ted Cruz, and the other \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Isn&#8217;t<\/span><\/b> Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the asshole in this situation \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Isn&#8217;t<\/span><\/b> Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>If this is not an end of the world scenario, if not an end of all existence.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, Thanos is snapping his fingers like Frank Sinatra right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz is appearing virtually. He has tested negative for COVID but has been self-quarantining after coming into contact with Sen. Mike Lee&#8230;who tested positive and delivered his in-person maskless opening statement in the hearing room. \u2014 Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) October 12, 2020 We Are Doomed OK, imagine a situation where there are two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,364,407,572,460,406,382,403],"class_list":["post-175960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-stupid","tag-technology","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}