{"id":10680,"date":"2020-06-18T20:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2020-06-18T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:27:41","slug":"bs-alert-ring-of-fire-eclipse-could-be-sign-of-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/06\/18\/bs-alert-ring-of-fire-eclipse-could-be-sign-of-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"BS alert: &#8220;&#8216;Ring of fire&#8217; eclipse could be sign of apocalypse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, just like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_eclipse_of_May_20,_2012\">the annular &#8220;ring of fire&#8221; eclipse I witnessed in Northern California on May 20, 2012<\/a>, after which the end of the earth occurred? Okay, so this one is on the summer solstice &#8211; because physics &#8211; and nothing else but whatever.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The year&#8217;s first solar eclipse \u2013 with a &#8216;ring of fire&#8217; this Sunday \u2013 will be the &#8216;deepest&#8217; one this century and coincides with the summer solstice, fueling doomsday believers&#8217; fears the end is nigh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/ring-fire-eclipse-could-sign-22204910\">&#8216;Ring of fire&#8217; eclipse could be sign of apocalypse sending &#8216;darkness over the Holy Land&#8217; &#8211; Daily Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stupid headline intended to strike fear into people. It&#8217;s based on conspiracy theories and numerology which seeks to find patterns in randomness &#8211; because not only does this event occur on the summer solstice, another one happens on July 4th, which is Independence Day in the U.S., therefore, this all means something &#8211; and that could only be SCARY &#8211; never anything good. In the end, its finding meaningless patterns in randomness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, the world is not going to end. This a bad headline designed to strike fear in the reader. It&#8217;s based on conspiracy theories and people seeking to find arbitrary patterns in randomness. But &#8211; time for some media scary headlines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-fear","category-media","category-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}