{"id":124,"date":"2011-05-21T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-05-21T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:45:21","slug":"breaking-news-family-radio-prepared-to-admit-it-was-wrong-about-the-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/breaking-news-family-radio-prepared-to-admit-it-was-wrong-about-the-rapture.html","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Family Radio Prepared to Admit it was Wrong about the Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/05\/family-radios-chief-admits-rapture-may-be-a-bust\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentlewisdom.org.uk\/3489\/rapture-update-4-family-radio-ready-to-concede\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Peter Kirk<\/a> I learned that Family Radio, Harold Camping\u2019s organization, has said that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.desmoinesregister.com\/dmr\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/family-radio-gives-final-may-21-rapture-deadline-of-midnight-in-jerusalem\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">if the Rapture has not occurred by midnight Jerusalem time tonight, they were wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/notbeingasausage.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/scholars-on-rapture.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OnNotBeingASausage+%28On+Not+Being+a+Sausage%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deirdre Good has a round-up of scholars talking about the Rapture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Joel Watts and Peter Kirk I learned that Family Radio, Harold Camping\u2019s organization, has said that if the Rapture has not occurred by midnight Jerusalem time tonight, they were wrong. 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