{"id":352063,"date":"2010-02-19T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22805"},"modified":"2010-02-19T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:07:39","slug":"caring-for-pets-left-behind-by-the-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352063","title":{"rendered":"Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/10_08\/b4167070046047.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5\">Business Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a fee, this service will place your dog or cat in the home of a  caring atheist on Judgment Day.<br \/>\nMany people in the U.S.\u2014perhaps 20 million to 40 million\u2014believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by  the Rapture . In this event, they say, the righteous will be spirited away to a better place while the godless remain on Earth. But what will become of all the pets?<\/p>\n<p>Bart Centre, 61, a retired retail executive in New Hampshire, says many people are troubled by this question, and he wants to help. He started a service called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets that promises to rescue and care for animals left behind by the saved.<\/p>\n<p>Promoted on the Web as &#8220;the next best thing to pet salvation in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Business Week: For a fee, this service will place your dog or cat in the home of a caring atheist on Judgment Day. Many people in the U.S.\u2014perhaps 20 million to 40 million\u2014believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture . In this event, they say, the righteous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}