{"id":8681,"date":"2010-12-18T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2010-12-18T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:33:02","slug":"this-year-was-the-most-recent-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/18\/this-year-was-the-most-recent-year\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year Was The Most Recent Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP ain&#8217;t rooting for the home team in this article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=201012170316\" target=\"_blank\">2010 a record year for deadly disasters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was the year the Earth struck back.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 &#8212; the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, the Earth does not have intention, no matter how fervently its worshipers want to anthropomorphize it.  Seriously, what the hell kind of &#8220;journalist&#8221; writes like that, where the planet is at odds with humans?  Sorry, I lost my head there.  This is an AP wire story.  No news was intended nor implied.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the deadliest year in a generation?  A generation of <em>what<\/em>, exactly, that has been born in the six years since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesian tsunami<\/a> killed almost a quarter million people on one day alone.  Given the inclinations of these writers, perhaps they&#8217;re thinking of more than a generation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prius#Third_generation_.28XW30.3B_2009.E2.80.93present.29\" target=\"_blank\">Toyota Priuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How uncritical do you have to be to fall for this kind of &#8220;reporting&#8221;?  What kind of gull do you have to be to write it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP ain&#8217;t rooting for the home team in this article: 2010 a record year for deadly disasters: This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 &#8212; the deadliest year in more than a generation. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}