{"id":115,"date":"2004-09-13T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2004-09-13T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T15:10:30","slug":"absolutely-nothing-has-happened-please-remain-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Absolutely nothing has happened.  Please remain calm.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just wanted to mention.. . for those who have asked. . . that <strong>absolutely nothing whatsoever<\/strong> happened today in Sector 83 by 9 by 12. I repeat, nothing&#8230; happened. Please remain calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Commander Ivanova, Babylon 5, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadgeezer.com\/babylon5\/four-13.htm\">Episode 79: &#8220;Rumours, Bargains and Lies&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it appears that <strong> absolutely nothing whatsoever<\/strong> happened this weekend in North Korea.  Nevermind the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3648794.stm\">mushroom cloud that appeared over Yanggang province<\/a>.  Because, even though mushroom clouds tend to be associated with nuclear events, this one, well, wasn&#8217;t.  Because, nothing happened, says the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States and South Korea have played down suggestions that a massive explosion in North Korea last week was caused by a nuclear device.<\/p>\n<p>The blast in Yanggang Province, close to the Chinese border, is said to have happened on Thursday as the Stalinist state celebrated its National Day.<\/p>\n<p>The blast created what officials in Seoul say was a peculiar-shaped cloud. <\/p>\n<p>As the secretive North stays silent on the blast, a visiting UK minister has asked for an urgent explanation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Riiight.  Maybe someone was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadgeezer.com\/babylon5\/marcus.wav\">just shooting at a bunch of rocks<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In North Korea today, absolutely nothing happened.  Yeah, right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}