{"id":14817,"date":"2013-06-06T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14817"},"modified":"2013-06-06T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T00:57:14","slug":"what-no-wacky-theories-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/what-no-wacky-theories-today.html","title":{"rendered":"What, No Wacky Theories Today?"},"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>I just noticed that today is June 6th, 2013. That\u2019s 6\/6 in the year 2+0+1+3=6.<\/p>\n<p>And yet nowhere have I spotted in the blogosphere or on Facebook someone suggesting that today the world will end, the antichrist will arise, or anything else of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that most people are finally tiring of the end-of-the-world apocalyptic hype?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSbD4zXqXHKUvC3iLjPW6ApAuXRno0RY4kDqBxptHZB14PIGgjOgTigvvWe\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that today is June 6th, 2013. That\u2019s 6\/6 in the year 2+0+1+3=6. And yet nowhere have I spotted in the blogosphere or on Facebook someone suggesting that today the world will end, the antichrist will arise, or anything else of the sort. Could it be that most people are finally tiring of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[255,704,1514,2460,3059,8260],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology-theology","tag-255","tag-apocalyptic","tag-calendar","tag-date","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-numbers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What, No Wacky Theories Today?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I just noticed that today is June 6th, 2013. That&#039;s 6\/6 in the year 2+0+1+3=6. 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