{"id":13208,"date":"2024-03-04T02:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T02:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13208"},"modified":"2024-04-21T02:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T02:36:28","slug":"where-it-all-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/04\/where-it-all-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Where It All Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/patmos-island-greece\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"maincontent\">Patmos: The Greek island where the end of the world began<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by John Malathronas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PATMOS GREECE Travel Guide \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VjLdRLg0Xzs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The island of Patmos, sitting under perfect blue skies in the eastern reaches of the Aegean sea, may look like a typical vacation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/destinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destination<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/destinations\/greece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greece<\/a>, but it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s where the end of the world began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that you\u2019d guess that, strolling down the winding path in the center of the island, where a sleepy priest tends a souvenir stall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, this is the place from where infernal visions of mankind\u2019s ultimate downfall sprang \u2013 inspiring St. John to write the Book of Revelation which forms the closing pages of the New Testament and gives the Bible some of its most portentous descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/patmos-island-greece\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Patmos: The Greek island where the end of the world began by John Malathronas The island of Patmos, sitting under perfect blue skies in the eastern reaches of the Aegean sea, may look like a typical vacation\u00a0destination\u00a0in\u00a0Greece, but it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s where the end of the world began. Not that you\u2019d guess that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}