{"id":2428,"date":"2002-06-26T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2002-06-26T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T14:15:05","slug":"hmmmm_about_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/26\/hmmmm_about_tha.html","title":{"rendered":"Hmmmm &#8230; about that &#8220;God Bless America Day&#8221; &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of figuring out for yourself how close we are to the End Times and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture?  Wonder no more, but visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raptureme.com\/rap2.html\">Rapture Index<\/a>, where all of these things are wrapped up into a nice, neat number, a la the DJIA.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you have to accept that the Pope is the False Prophet and the EU is the Beast Government, but, hey, at least they spell it out.  And I <i>have <\/i>wondered about the EU lately &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it seems at least as scientific as the Doomsday Clock.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, the current index is at 165, which means &#8220;Fasten Your Seat Belt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_06_01_archive.html#85194590\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired of figuring out for yourself how close we are to the End Times and the Pre-Tribulation Rapture? Wonder no more, but visit the Rapture Index, where all of these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6925,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/02\/no_man_shall_kn.html","url_meta":{"origin":2428,"position":0},"title":"No man shall know the day or hour","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Dec-04 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"But that doesn't keep some folks from trying to guess whether the day and hour are coming closer. 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