{"id":4709,"date":"2020-03-13T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2020-03-13T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:55:10","slug":"talk-about-the-end-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"Talk about the end  of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY CANADA SHUT DOWN<br \/>\nalan skeoch Friday  March 13, 2020<br \/>\n Today the city shut down<br \/>\nToday social events shut down<br \/>\nToday sporting events including curling shut down<br \/>\nToday schools shut down<br \/>\nToday air travel shut down<br \/>\nToday Marjorie\u2019s bridge clubs shut down<br \/>\nToday Loblaws was ringed with shopping carts\u2026not quite shut down but close<br \/>\nToday the loaded shelves in normal times were empty\u2026shut down<br \/>\nToday the medical  centres were mobbed\u2026slowed  down<br \/>\nToday dentists began to reconsider their profession\u2026would that viral containing  mouths were shut down<br \/>\nToday parliament shut down<br \/>\nToday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was virtually shut down<br \/>\nToday the zoo shut  down<br \/>\nToday the library shut down<br \/>\nToday the museum shut down<br \/>\nToday the art centre shut down<br \/>\nToday the white collar crowd were sent home\u2026shut down<br \/>\nToday the blue collar crowd were NOT shut down<br \/>\nToday the garbage was  collected<br \/>\nToday the buses were running<br \/>\nTODAY A LITTLE THING SO SMALL AS TO BE INVISIBLE MANAGED TO SHUT DOWN CIVILIZED LIFE ACROSS THE PLANET.<br \/>\nToday the pharmacies  were packing pills\u2026some lives were shutting down<br \/>\nToday the paper was delivered<br \/>\nToday a coyote slipped into our back yard\u2026.and  sat down<br \/>\nToday the clouds were black, the trees were bare, the ground was gray\u2026Today the planet shut down.<br \/>\nToday I had a cough\u2026but no temperature, no weakness\u2026no Covid-19 to shut me down \u2026yet<br \/>\n\u201cShut up, Alan, \u2026pipe down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY CANADA SHUT DOWN alan skeoch Friday March 13, 2020 Today the city shut down Today social events shut down Today sporting events including curling shut down Today schools shut down Today air travel shut down Today Marjorie\u2019s bridge clubs shut down Today Loblaws was ringed with shopping carts\u2026not quite shut down but close Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}