{"id":964,"date":"2010-01-03T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:50:27","slug":"a-new-years-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/03\/a-new-years-message\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Years Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the passing of 2009 is coming fast, with this passing it is  traditional for people here on Earth to reflect on the things that  occurred in the outgoing year. Your current year in the Gregorian it is  around 2010 years after some obscure event \u2013 give or take about three  years on either side.\u00a0 (your monks never really agreed on the exact  date.) Your\u00a0 current Islamic Year is 1429 AH. The date in the Jewish  calendar is Tevet 15, 5770<\/p>\n<p>On my home planet of Marcab which is the 12th planet orbiting the  star you know as Eta Ursae Majoris ( UMa \/ Ursae Majoris) Alkaid,\u00a0 and  sometimes Benetnasch.\u00a0 We celebrate a new year only once every 567 Earth  years which makes our astronomical calendars rather cumbersome.  Needless to say we went to a completely non-planetary motion standard.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you call the year or whenever you come from (originally,) I  hope you have a happy and productive new year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was a time for reorganization at the Odd Empire.\u00a0 We have  some new faces and some surprising old ones. We noted with great sadness  the passing of <a href=\"http:\/\/posthumanblues.blogspot.com\/\">Mac Tonnies<\/a>,\u00a0 Mac;  Mac represented a more balanced view into the paranormal than most of  his contemporaries. He\u2019s EXACLY what the Odd Empire WAS NOT designed for  \u2013which is why we never riffed him. Mac, wherever you are; I didn\u2019t  agree with you all the time but I respected your opinion as you  respected mine. It\u2019s a pity that more people can\u2019t think like you and  voice their opinions with a consistently civil and cheerful outlook on  life. RIP dude! You were one of the good guys!<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto the future, things to look out for at the Odd Empire;<\/p>\n<p>We have our Wiki site up and running and we are actively soliciting  contributors. The subject of the Odd Empire (in case you don\u2019t already  know) is riffing self important web page authors who think they know  everything and pointing out some of their more obvious mistakes.\u00a0 Not  only web pages, but podcasts, wiki pages and videos are all fair game.  Also religious organizations, insane self published book authors, pseudo  scientists, pro-conspiracy nutjobs, ghost hunters, Bigfoot \u2013or  cripzoologists, cerealologists, UFOlogists, paranormalists and of  course, Scientologists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say there is anything wrong with these people. We just  like to point out to the world that they don\u2019t really know Jack about  what they are writing about. (I can safely say that because I keep Jack  locked up here at the Odd Empire. )<\/p>\n<p>So There it is! 2010 will be a significant year just like 2009 was.  Remember &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;Merda taurorum animas conturbit&#8221; e &#8211; &#8220;Exegi monumentum aere perennius&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Res ipsa Loquitur&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the passing of 2009 is coming fast, with this passing it is traditional for people here on Earth to reflect on the things that occurred in the outgoing year. Your current year in the Gregorian it is around 2010 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/01\/03\/a-new-years-message\/\">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-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}