{"id":4244,"date":"2011-01-06T17:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2011-01-06T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:14:46","slug":"doomsday-chronicles-pt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Chronicles, pt. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/planning/">Order Soma Online</a> Bryan Walsh at <em>Time<\/em> has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/ecocentric.blogs.time.com\/2011\/01\/05\/why-the-aflockalypse-is-business-as-usual\"\u201dand-why-thats-not-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">deconstruction<\/a> of the recent cluster of sudden animal deaths he sardonically refers to as<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>the Aflockalypse, the Aquapalypse or some other clever term that will soon be trending on Twitter.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Walsh asks:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>With  so many mass animal deaths occurring together in such a short period of  time, it seems perfectly reasonable to ask the question: are the end  times nigh?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>He&#8217;s kidding.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Actually,  no, it&#8217;s not reasonable at all. While it is possible that these string  of suspicious animal deaths could signal some kind Revelations-like  event <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/revelation\/8-9.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a third of the living creatures in the sea died<\/a>&#8220;),  it&#8217;s really, really, really unlikely. For one thing, as they examine  the deaths, scientists are already beginning to come up with  explanations&#8221;\u201dnone of which so far involves a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse\" target=\"_blank\">pale horse and pale rider<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.balimadetour.com/contact-us/"></a> Bryan Walsh at Time has a nice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3054],"tags":[1378,1581,1766],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-nature","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}