{"id":538,"date":"2005-06-20T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/06\/20\/calling-benton-quest-calling-benton-quest\/"},"modified":"2009-02-06T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:03:03","slug":"calling-benton-quest-calling-benton-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/538","title":{"rendered":"Calling Benton Quest, calling Benton Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Y2K doomsday scenario dissolved and then the family was unable to put together a comprehensive emergency action plan in the wake of September 11, I guess I&#8217;d had enough of preparing for potential calamity. But a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillsdale.edu\/imprimis\/default.htm\">warning from Frank Gaffney<\/a> about the EMP threat almost makes me think I should become a card-carrying Crashologist again. G-bo used to talk about EMP as a clear and present danger, but never suggested what could be done about it at the personal level beyond the fundamentals. Maybe I need to look into this more deeply, although it probably comes back to the basics of surviving any catastrophe&#8212;clean water, nutrition, shelter, power, communications, medical care, and self defense.\n<\/p>\n<p>I understand, dear reader, that you might see a name like Gaffney and think, &#8220;He&#8217;s one of those right-wing think tankers who&#8217;s actively helping Rumsfeld and Cheney reshape the entire U.S. power structure.&#8221; Just keep in mind that when I check out the Websites that work to expose all these scary conservatives, I usually say, &#8220;Wow, these guys are great!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Y2K doomsday scenario dissolved and then the family was unable to put together a comprehensive emergency action plan in the wake of September 11, I guess I&#8217;d had enough of preparing for potential calamity. But a recent warning from Frank Gaffney about the EMP threat almost makes me think I should become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,46,7,18,16,48,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}