{"id":149,"date":"2020-03-24T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:27:01","slug":"the-universe-is-taking-its-revenge-with-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/the-universe-is-taking-its-revenge-with-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"The universe is taking its revenge with COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Idris Elba, that is. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/03\/23\/idris-elba-suggests-coronavirus-is-earth-reacting-to-human-infection\/?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idris Elba Suggests Coronavirus Is Earth \u2018Reacting\u2019 to Human \u2018Infection\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to pick on Mr. Elba. (Well, maybe a little.) But this idea that the universe is alive in some way, that there are consequences to actions &#8212; something like karma, or justice, or retribution, or whatever you want to call it &#8212; seems to be deeply ingrained in the human psyche. <\/p>\n<p>Paraphrasing Chesterton, &#8220;When men cease to believe in God, they don&#8217;t believe nothing, they believe anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Idris Elba, that is. Idris Elba Suggests Coronavirus Is Earth \u2018Reacting\u2019 to Human \u2018Infection\u2019 I don&#8217;t mean to pick on Mr. Elba. (Well, maybe a little.) But this idea that the universe is alive in some way, that there are consequences to actions &#8212; something like karma, or justice, or retribution, or whatever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/the-universe-is-taking-its-revenge-with-covid19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The universe is taking its revenge with COVID19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}