{"id":195511,"date":"2008-07-03T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/03\/god-hates-the-beijing-olympics\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T22:38:00","slug":"god-hates-the-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/03\/god-hates-the-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"God Hates the Beijing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insurrection in Tibet, Earthquake Algae Bloom, Floods, and The most protested torch relay in history.<\/p>\n<p>And now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-locust3-2008jul03,0,5361489.story\">plague of locusts<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the author of the piece, &#8220;Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine, frogs and smiting of the first born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dude, I understand that you are all officially atheists and all in the PRC, but slaughter a few dozen goats or something.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve done something to piss him off.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Note: this is humor, not serious.  I&#8217;m making a joke in bad taste, not suggesting that God is actually punishing the Chinese people.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurrection in Tibet, Earthquake Algae Bloom, Floods, and The most protested torch relay in history. And now a plague of locusts in China. I agree with the author of the piece, &#8220;Locusts? What is going on here? The litany of near-biblical woes would seem to lack only a famine, frogs and smiting of the first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1048,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-humor","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195511"}],"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=195511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}