{"id":5036,"date":"2012-09-14T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2012-09-14T19:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:07:57","slug":"heads-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5036","title":{"rendered":"Heads up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose I could go so far<\/strong> as to refer to actor\/pundit Ben Stein as my colleague, since we both write for The American Spectator Online. It’s a little like a stock boy at Staples calling Mitt Romney his colleague, but I might get away with it. But no, I won’t do that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Stein, who makes no claims to Christian faith, writes today that he’s been having apocalyptic thoughts<\/a>.
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At breakfast, my wife suddenly said, “And then I beheld a red horse ridden by a man with a great sword….”<\/p>\n

“What is that?” I asked her.<\/p>\n

“It’s Revelation,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I know, but where does that come from?”<\/p>\n

“I just feel as if something big is about to happen,” she said. “Something feels like we’re about to live in a totally changed world. It feels like end times. Why are we apologizing to the Muslims? They’re killing and expelling their Christians and we don’t say a word. End times.”<\/p>\n

I nodded. There is that feeling in the air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assuming we’re not taken up this weekend, have a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose I could go so far as to refer to actor\/pundit Ben Stein as my colleague, since we both write for The American Spectator Online. It’s a little like a stock boy at Staples calling Mitt Romney his colleague, but I might get away with it. But no, I won’t do that. Anyway, Stein, … Continue reading Heads up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-religion"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}