{"id":1295,"date":"2013-12-31T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2014-01-01T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:58:01","slug":"2014-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"2014 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1266\">2013 predictions<\/a> were more off than usual. And I missed this biggest event of all, the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvia_Browne#Death\">Sylvia Browne<\/a>. But as usual, a bad year won&#8217;t stop any charlatan from making more predictions. So here is what we have to look forward to in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>1. Syliva Browne will not make a single incorrect prediction in 2014.<br \/>\n2. Miley Cyrus will become a Muslim and don a burqa in her twerking act.<br \/>\n3. As a result, &#8220;Burqing&#8221; will be the new buzzword of 2014.<br \/>\n4. Time Magazine will strip Pope Francis of its 2013 Person of the Year title when an investigation reveals that he is Catholic.<br \/>\n5. Bollywood will be the new black.<br \/>\n6. The next NSA collection bombshell: belly button lint. Yes, they have it and they know what you wore last Thursday.<br \/>\n7. Angry birds will be arrested for assault and sentenced to anger management classes.<br \/>\n8. Archaeologists will discover large buildings filled with lost caches of books right in the middle of cities. They will name these buildings &#8220;Libraries&#8221;. No one will know what that means.<br \/>\n9. Scientists will continue to argue over whether the climate is warming or cooling. Meanwhile, a group of confused middle-school children in Massachusetts will start a change.org petition to knit a new polar cap.<br \/>\n10. The bizarre trend of retailers renaming Christmas Trees to &#8220;Holiday Trees&#8221; will continue. Buyers seeking these trees for their Independence Day celebrations will be disappointed when the trees are unavailable during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2013 predictions were more off than usual. And I missed this biggest event of all, the death of Sylvia Browne. But as usual, a bad year won&#8217;t stop any charlatan from making more predictions. So here is what we have to look forward to in 2014. 1. Syliva Browne will not make a single &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2014 Predictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}