{"id":1590,"date":"2010-06-13T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2010-06-14T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:38:03","slug":"enjoy-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy The Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still brooding over the &#8220;collapse of civilization&#8221; idea.  I don&#8217;t think it will happen in my lifetime.  And I would say that the chances of it happening by the year 2100 are between 5 and 10 percent.  But it still is kind of &#8220;mind-blowing&#8221; to think there&#8217;s a possibility that humankind could experience a combined economic, social and population collapse that could take us back perhaps to the year 1700.  (I thought that threat passed with the end of the Cold War.  Guess not.)<\/p>\n<p>Within the past 10 years, here in the USA we&#8217;ve seen a fair amount of calamity and negativity, including: Hurricane Katrina; Nine-Eleven; the Gulf Oil Spill; the Health Care Crisis; Political Gridlock; the new &#8220;Angry at the Government&#8221; movement in the US, i.e. the Tea Party; a Housing Market Collapse that became a Financial System Collapse; destruction of 2 of 5 US Manned Spaceships; and an on-going Middle Eastern War.  That&#8217;s a lot of drag on the system.  Not enough to break us, but . . .<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I think it&#8217;s time for me to take a break.  So I&#8217;m posting two nice shots that I took many years ago, somewhere along the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere in Connecticut or Massachusetts.  It&#8217;s time to just enjoy the moment, while we still have it.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/shore2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/shore1.jpg\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still brooding over the &#8220;collapse of civilization&#8221; idea. I don&#8217;t think it will happen in my lifetime. And I would say that the chances of it happening by the year 2100 are between 5 and 10 percent. But it still is kind of &#8220;mind-blowing&#8221; to think there&#8217;s a possibility that humankind could experience a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}