{"id":136,"date":"2012-10-29T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=136"},"modified":"2012-10-29T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T05:03:54","slug":"doomsday-proof-arks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2012\/10\/doomsday-proof-arks\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday-proof Arks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mcmytitUtf1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Thanks to Harold Camping fear-mongering Doomsday campaign, tons of people lost their jobs, their savings or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/News\/Man+found+dead+in+church+on+doomsday+\/-\/1056\/1166930\/-\/hvpqpfz\/-\/\">their lives<\/a>, just because a nutcase said the Rapture was happening for the n-th time. And some people profited off that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with the whole &#8216;Mayans-predicted-the-end-of-times&#8217; nonsense, some other people are taking advantage of ignorance; for example\u00a0Yang Zongfu, who is selling\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/china\/2012-10\/25\/content_26898154.htm\">Doomsday-proof Arks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entrepreneur Yang Zongfu has received 21 orders for his doomsday ark, which he claims can withstand the end of the world, reported by Oriental Outlook, a Shanghai magazine attached to Xinhua News Agency on Oct 24, 2012. The most expensive ark comes at a price of five million yuan ($799,500).<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, all the orders are in accordance with customer requests and each ark has its own custom-built interior design. The prices start from one million yuan.<\/p>\n<p>Chinadaily.com.cn previously reported on Aug 6, 2012 that Yang, 32, from Yiwu, Zhejiang province had announced his invention of &#8220;Atlantis&#8221;, a gigantic ark that would be able to withstand doomsday, which according to the Mayan calendar, will occur on Dec 21, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think he should be sued and make him pay to the last cent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Harold Camping fear-mongering Doomsday campaign, tons of people lost their jobs, their savings or even their lives, just&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,63,65,66],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-64","tag-china","tag-doomsday","tag-mayans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}