{"id":9592,"date":"2016-04-12T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=9592"},"modified":"2019-12-19T01:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:29:16","slug":"kingly-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=9592","title":{"rendered":"A Kingly Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=the+stand+book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Stand<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-external-link-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-external-link-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-search-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-search-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/>, written by Stephen King and released in 1978, is more than 800 pages long.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=the+stand+complete+and+uncut+edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Stand: The Complete &#038; Uncut Edition<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-external-link-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-external-link-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/icon-search-12x12.png\" alt=\"icon-search-12x12\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" \/> was released in 1990 and is more than 1100 pages long.  The book is definitely worth reading.  It also has what I consider to be a happy ending:  an atom bomb is detonated in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=9598\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9597\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?attachment_id=9597\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/stephen-king-000002-formatted.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"371,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stephen-king-000002-formatted\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/stephen-king-000002-formatted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/stephen-king-000002-formatted.jpg\" alt=\"stephen-king-000002-formatted\" width=\"371\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9597\" srcset=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/stephen-king-000002-formatted.jpg 371w, http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/stephen-king-000002-formatted-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not to suggest that I would like to see Las Vegas be exploded; but I do think that if a nuclear weapon were to go off in the US, Las Vegas would be one of the the better places for it to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stand , written by Stephen King and released in 1978, is more than 800 pages long. The Stand: The Complete &#038; Uncut Edition was released in 1990 and is more than 1100 pages long. The book is definitely worth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=9592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[381,647,205,379,380],"class_list":["post-9592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-bernie-wrightson","tag-musings","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-stand","tag-the-stand-the-complete-uncut-edition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DQCb-2uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20797,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions\/20797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}