{"id":474,"date":"2013-12-20T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-12-20T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T13:30:49","slug":"the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-mayan-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-mayan-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Year Anniversary of the End of the Mayan Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;re we all faring? Everybody okay, I trust?<\/p>\n<p>You know what time of year it is, right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s the anniversary of when <a title=\"Has the Apocalypse Happened Yet?\" href=\"http:\/\/hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\">time ran out on the Mayans<\/a>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-475\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BigIslandTiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-475\" alt=\"Not a Mayan Artifact\" src=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/BigIslandTiki-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a Mayan Artifact<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So in honor of this special time of year, &#8220;<a title=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" href=\"http:\/\/hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/history.html\">The History of the Mayan Ball League<\/a>&#8221; is now <strong>FREE<\/strong>*!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also now super-short, just like it was before! You&#8217;ve heard of novels, right? Well, this is like a really short novel you could read in a sitting.<\/p>\n<p>So rush right on out, because there is an excellent chance that the Mayan Calendar simply had daylight savings year built into it and\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>this<\/em><\/strong> is the year the whole shebang is going to end and I would feel really bad if you hadn&#8217;t read &#8220;<a title=\"The History of the Mayan Ball League\" href=\"http:\/\/hastheapocalypsehappenedyet.com\/history.html\">The History of the Mayan Ball League<\/a>&#8221; before the world ended.<\/p>\n<p>You can even gift the booklet (let&#8217;s call it a baby novel) to your friends, family, and acquaintances, since it also happens to be the season of giving. And and <strong>AND<\/strong> if you give someone something they may feel they owe you something in return when the world is actually ending.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Void on Amazon, where I can&#8217;t make it free or can&#8217;t figure out how to make it free without making it an Amazon exclusive, which is probably all my fault, and I feel a deep and abiding shame for this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Look, I&#8217;m not supposed to even be writing this. If I had a decent publisher or agent, say, for example, a non-imaginary one, of either, they&#8217;d be plugging this for me and I could just be writing away, editing\u00c2\u00a0<em>Butterfly, a novel<\/em>, which some have already called &#8220;Murakami in Massachusetts.&#8221; Others have called it less kind things, but we&#8217;ll ignore those comments for the moment. At any rate, I would be much obliged if you would just go download the story so I can finish <em>Butterfly<\/em> before the world actually does end and I spend eternity in a\u00c2\u00a0<em>really<\/em> foul mood for not having finished the damn book.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How&#8217;re we all faring? Everybody okay, I trust? You know what time of year it is, right? That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s the anniversary of when time ran out on the Mayans! So in honor of this special time of year, &#8220;The History of the Mayan Ball League&#8221; is now FREE*! It&#8217;s also now super-short, just like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-history-of-the-mayan-ball-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}