{"id":52823,"date":"2016-10-09T22:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52823"},"modified":"2016-10-09T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:19:17","slug":"apocalypse-waves-and-montains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52823","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse: waves and mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; with delighted appreciation to historian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienKempf\">Damien Kempf<\/a> ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Damien Kempf<\/strong> asks, &#8220;So&#8230; what\u2019s the apocalypse really going to be like?&#8221; and tweets 15 signs of the end times, in images from the 16th century Bodleian MS, Douce 134:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first sign of the Apocalypse: the sea rises to the mountain tops <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cA96f4Qx4t\">pic.twitter.com\/cA96f4Qx4t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienKempf\/status\/785148852915564546\">October 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now you see them &#8212; the waves, I mean &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; and now you don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The second sign of the Apocalypse: the sea descends out of sight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xj9AZ66pQH\">pic.twitter.com\/Xj9AZ66pQH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamienKempf\/status\/785161036433354754\">October 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oops!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=43176\">Theory and Practice, Ideal and Real, War and Peace<\/a> a while back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are two distinct scenarions that I try to bear in mind, in one of which an archipelago of islands is seen in a seascape, while the other shows a number of lakes in a landscape of mountains, hills and valleys.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference between them, as I envision them, is the water level.<\/p>\n<p>Raise the water level, and the lakes join to become a sea in which the isolated remaining hill and mountain tops have become islands \u2014 lower the water level, and the islands become the hills and mountain tops of a landscape, with the sea now diminished to a congeries of lakes and pools in its valleys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; with delighted appreciation to historian Damien Kempf ] . Damien Kempf asks, &#8220;So&#8230; what\u2019s the apocalypse really going to be like?&#8221; and tweets 15 signs of the end times, in images from the 16th century Bodleian MS, Douce 134: The first sign of the Apocalypse: the sea rises to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791,526,627,1151,1039,1418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-medieval","category-opposites-coincidentia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52823"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52833,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52823\/revisions\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}