{"id":2535,"date":"2011-04-10T23:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2011-04-10T23:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T05:08:58","slug":"how-would-the-world-have-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2535","title":{"rendered":"How Would the World Have Ended?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Count on a librarian to find fascinating stuff on the Web\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebredafallacy.com\/2011\/04\/end-is.html\">a list of predictions on how the world was going to end, going back to 4490 BCE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>(TEOTWAWKI: <em>The end of the world as we know it<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>I still have a sentimental fondness for <a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/lorenmadsen\/endings\/1973.html\">1973 and Comet Kohoutek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count on a librarian to find fascinating stuff on the Web\u2014a list of predictions on how the world was going to end, going back to 4490 BCE. (TEOTWAWKI: The end of the world as we know it.) I still have a sentimental fondness for 1973 and Comet Kohoutek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ET","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1112,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1112","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry with Frankincense.","author":"Chas S. 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We continue to be colonized every day of our lives. \u201cSurrounding us and infusing us is this cloud of microbes,\u201d said Jeffrey Gordon of Washington University. We end up with different species, but those species generally\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"health\"","block_context":{"text":"health","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5113,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5113","url_meta":{"origin":2535,"position":3},"title":"Wicca, Recategorized by Librarians, Now by Booksellers as Well","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2007, the\u00a0 news was that books on Wicca were re-categorized by the Library of Congress from BF (psychology, abnormal) to\u00a0 BP 600, a sort of catch-all for \"other beliefs and movements.\" A new Dewey Decimal number was assigned as well, for libraries using that system. 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I hope this weekend to spread gravel where it is going to sit, and then I can assemble it next Friday or Saturday. 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