{"id":123,"date":"2005-12-14T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2005-12-14T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:47:19","slug":"not-with-a-bang-but-with-an-insane-rant-from-the-iranian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Not with a bang, but with an insane rant from the Iranian president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture by author Simon Winchester. He mostly talked about his latest book, which details the San Francisco fire and earthquake and aftermath of each 100 years ago. Winchester is brilliant and adorable and a great speaker. He&#8217;s also a geologist by trade, so there was much talk of plate tectonics and climate shift and that sort of thing. I eat that shit up, so I was rivetted. <\/p>\n<p>Late in the lecture, he told us about how some lake in Yellowstone National Park sits atop a constantly swelling and contracting lava dome. At some point, probably in about 20,000 years, that lava dome will explode and take out most of the western half of the U.S. Then he added, &#8220;Which isn&#8217;t really a problem for us, since humans will be gone by then anyway.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002683320_webiran14.html\">this article<\/a>, I&#8217;m inclined to agree. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002683320_webiran14.html\">Iranian president calls Holocaust a &#8216;myth&#8217; used to create Israel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture by author Simon Winchester. He mostly talked about his latest book, which details the San Francisco fire and earthquake and aftermath of each 100 years ago. Winchester is brilliant and adorable and a great speaker. He&#8217;s also a geologist by trade, so there was much talk of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}