{"id":621,"date":"2008-06-24T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/the-modern-age-definition-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T08:57:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T15:57:06","slug":"the-modern-age-definition-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/24\/the-modern-age-definition-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Day Definition Of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2008\/06\/23\/Many_Dutch_prepare_for_2012_apocalypse\/UPI-40461214263554\/\" target=\"_blank\">from UPI.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #446677; font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0804748179?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bigjimind-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0804748179\" title=\"The Ancient Maya, 6th Edition (Paperback)by Robert Sharer (Author), Loa Traxler (Author) \"The broad expanse of territory occupied by the Maya in the centuries before the Conquest-we shall call it the Maya area-is defined both by the...\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2012apocalypse.net\/sitebuildercontent\/sitebuilderpictures\/.pond\/mayan-calendar.jpg.w300h301.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 23 (UPI) &#8212; Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are taking precautions to prepare for the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: none\">The Dutch-language\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/de_Volkskrant\/\" style=\"color: #224455; text-decoration: none\" target=\"_blank\">de Volkskrant<\/a>\u00a0newspaper said it spoke to thousands of believers in the impending end of civilization, and while theories on the supposed catastrophe varied, most tied the 2012 date to the end of the Mayan calendar, Radio Netherlands reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conspiracy-times.com\/\" title=\"Conspiracy Times believes there is a global conspiracy out there, and it is one to enslave Mankind in eternal fear. Hence, we live in conspiracy times, and Conspiracy Times reports on this campaign of fear.\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conspiracy-times.com\/images\/articles_images\/Apocalypse_2012.jpg\" style=\"text-align: right\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: none\">De Volkskrant said many of those interviewed are stocking up on emergency supplies, including life rafts and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: none\">Some who spoke to the newspaper were optimistic about the end of civilization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: none\">&#8220;You know, maybe it&#8217;s really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed,&#8221; Petra Faile said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it here anymore. Take immigration, for example. They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2008\/06\/23\/Many_Dutch_prepare_for_2012_apocalypse\/UPI-40461214263554\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to read article at UPI.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UPI.com Many Dutch prepare for 2012 apocalypse\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}