{"id":183,"date":"2006-12-11T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/megacreepy\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T12:08:20","slug":"megacreepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"MegaCreepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally catch bits and pieces of the History Channel&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&#038;mini_id=1401\">Mega Disasters<\/a> &#8211; <\/em>where scientists (who may or may not be crackpots) wax enthusiastic about their pet theories for civilization-altering disasters, set (in the History Channel&#8217;s typical style) to cheesy graphics and crudely-assembled stock footage of similar disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Mega-wildfires destroying Sidney?  A Tsunami drowning the entire east coast?  A mega-hurricane erasing some other first-world metropolis?  No matter; some scientist will appear, grinning like Comic Book Guy who&#8217;s just gotten the new Cthulhu Digest, as cheesy computer graphics show some hapless bystander getting swallowed by a tsunami, or stock footage from Indonesia&#8217;s tsunami shows a little girl being swept away from a group of other kids clutching an abutment?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s entertainment.  Of course, I&#8217;ve met the type of people who find disaster pr0n entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Ick.<\/p>\n<p>These shows make my skin crawl; the people who get off on them make my\u00a0 <em>intestines<\/em> crawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally catch bits and pieces of the History Channel&#8217;s Mega Disasters &#8211; where scientists (who may or may not be crackpots) wax enthusiastic about their pet theories for civilization-altering disasters, set (in the History Channel&#8217;s typical style) to cheesy graphics and crudely-assembled stock footage of similar disasters. Mega-wildfires destroying Sidney? A Tsunami drowning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}