{"id":9454,"date":"2011-05-22T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9454"},"modified":"2011-05-22T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:01:23","slug":"apocalypse-not-now-i-dont-understand-it-obviously-i-havent-understood-it-correctly-because-we-are-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/apocalypse-not-now-i-dont-understand-it-obviously-i-havent-understood-it-correctly-because-we-are-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse not-now: &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand it. Obviously I haven&#8217;t understood it correctly because we are still here&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disappointed followers of Harold Camping are (as far as the media have been able to determine) still around, and there are no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/news\/world\/article\/229905--another-failed-prediction-for-camping-no-apocalypse-saturday\" target=\"_blank\">explanations<\/a> yet from the prophet of doom:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The California radio evangelist attracted the worldwide following proclaiming that the apocalypse would come Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Camping&#8217;s followers gave away all their worldly possessions in anticipation of the biblical rapture.<\/p>\n<p>In Oakland, California a group of onlookers poking fun at the predictions gathered outside Camping&#8217;s radio station to countdown to the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Camping predicted an apocalypse once before in 1994 and said it was a &#8220;miscalculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, 60-year-old retiree Robert Fitzpatrick was also a believer of Camping&#8217;s prediction.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick said he was expecting a natural disaster. &#8220;We&#8217;ll I expected the earth quake to begin, right around 6:00.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand it. Obviously I haven&#8217;t understood it correctly because we are still here,&#8221; Fitzpatrick said to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick is the author of, &#8220;The Doomsday Code,&#8221; and spent more than $140,000 of his retirement savings on ads about the end of the world. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, you have to feel a bit sorry for them: who among us hasn&#8217;t had the disappointment of a cancelled Camping trip on the May Two-Four weekend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disappointed followers of Harold Camping are (as far as the media have been able to determine) still around, and there are no explanations yet from the prophet of doom: The California radio evangelist attracted the worldwide following proclaiming that the apocalypse would come Saturday. Some of Camping&#8217;s followers gave away all their worldly possessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[360,156],"class_list":["post-9454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9455,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}