If you are reading this, it means that the sane people were correct.<\/p>\n
The eclipse came and went without the world ending.\u00a0 \u00a0We still have electricity.\u00a0 \u00a0Grocery stores are still open and well stocked.\u00a0 There wasn’t a Rapture.\u00a0 Martial law was not declared.\u00a0The lizard people did not show their true form and put a New World Order in place.<\/p>\n
Of all the things to attach wild conspiracy theories to, a solar eclipse is one of the stupidest.\u00a0 Eclipses are a well-documented natural phenomenon that have been studied for thousands of years.\u00a0 They aren’t rare at all- on average one happens every 18 months, and the last one visible in the United States was just in 2017!\u00a0 They aren’t mysterious if you spend 2 minutes on Google, or recall your elementary school science class.\u00a0 NASA has an easy to understand article here if your science is a little rusty:\u00a0 https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/geometry\/<\/a><\/p>\n But logic, common sense, or a rudimentary understanding of how the natural world works are not flowers that grow in a conspiracy theorists’ garden. They live in constant fear of the bogeyman of the week, and this week the moon is that bogeyman for simply passing between the earth and the sun again.<\/p>\n Or, maybe I was wrong and no one will be reading this because the world ended or because no one on Earth has electricity anymore so the internet no longer exists.<\/p>\n Nah.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are reading this, it means that the sane people were correct. The eclipse came and went without the world ending.\u00a0 \u00a0We still have electricity.\u00a0 \u00a0Grocery stores are still open and well stocked.\u00a0 There wasn’t a Rapture.\u00a0 Martial law was not declared.\u00a0The lizard people did not show their true form and put a New World Order in place. Of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/eclipse.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}