{"id":1034,"date":"2010-03-22T19:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:17:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:17:50","slug":"waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world-georgias-30-year-stone-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/22\/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world-georgias-30-year-stone-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the end of the world: Georgia&#8217;s 30-year stone mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elberton, Georgia (CNN) <\/strong> &#8212; In the beginning, there was the  stone.<\/p>\n<p>The blue-gray vein of granite that courses through  northeastern Georgia spawned jobs in the quarries and finishing sheds of  Elberton, where generations of stonecutters have turned slabs of rock  the size of refrigerators into statues, tombstones and tile.<\/p>\n<p>And  one day, it brought a visitor who gifted the town with a landmark that  leaves visitors scratching their heads decades later.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly  20-foot high series of granite slabs known as the Georgia Guidestones  are inscribed with a series of admonitions for a future &#8220;Age of Reason.&#8221;  Billed as &#8220;America&#8217;s Stonehenge,&#8221; it&#8217;s an astronomically complex,  120-ton relic of Cold War fears, built to instruct survivors of an  Armageddon that the mystery man feared was all too near.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/03\/22\/georgia.mystery.monument\/?hpt=C2\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elberton, Georgia (CNN) &#8212; In the beginning, there was the stone. The blue-gray vein of granite that courses through northeastern Georgia spawned jobs in the quarries and finishing sheds of Elberton, where generations of stonecutters have turned slabs of rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/03\/22\/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world-georgias-30-year-stone-mystery\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}