{"id":2066,"date":"2005-05-04T22:12:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T02:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2005-05-04T22:13:47","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T02:13:47","slug":"the-new-antediluvianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/04\/the-new-antediluvianism\/","title":{"rendered":"the new antediluvianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ready.gov\/\"><img src='http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/readygovflood_film2.png' alt='ready.gov flash animation showing an office in a flood' \/><\/a><br \/>\nBrowsing a news site today, I caught this weird animation for the US government &#8216;preparedness&#8217; (<em>hunh?! as in &#8216;prepared food&#8217;?<\/em>) site, <a href=\"http:\/\/ready.gov\/\">ready.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, it shows an office being drowned in a biblical-scale flood. Apart from being astonishingly insensitive to recent victims of the tsunami, when&#8217;s this going to happen? Could it finally be an acceptance of global warming by the US government? It&#8217;d take a fairly nifty terrorist to cause a flood like this. How&#8217;s some plastic sheeting, duct tape, and not talking to strangers going to help here?<\/p>\n<p>I have no answers for this, but I tell you, I&#8217;m investing in gopher wood futures right away&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Browsing a news site today, I caught this weird animation for the US government &#8216;preparedness&#8217; (hunh?! as in &#8216;prepared food&#8217;?) site, ready.gov Basically, it shows an office being drowned in a biblical-scale flood. Apart from being astonishingly insensitive to recent victims of the tsunami, when&#8217;s this going to happen? Could it finally be an acceptance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-war_on_terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}