{"id":28498,"date":"2012-01-27T16:21:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28498"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:23:06","slug":"are-doomsday-preppers-just-paranoid-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28498","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8220;Doomsday Preppers&#8221; Just Paranoid Nuts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/doomsday-preppers\/\" target=\"_blank\">The National Geographic Channel is about to premiere\u00a0<em>Doomsday Preppers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Long a rather quiet subculture it will be fascinating to see what kind of attention this exposure will bring.<\/p>\n<p>I should note here that I have been a survivalist (the OLD name) for quite some time. If some television producer asked ME to participate in a national TV show about the subject I&#8217;d be more interested in how he got my name? I sure as hell wouldn&#8217;t volunteer just to be on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Candidly, I&#8217;m skeptical (and paranoid?). \u00a0As<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28483\" target=\"_blank\"> Jonn noted in part\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0vets are suspect in some circles&#8230; but I&#8217;ll posit that that\u00a0suspicion is based on many of the same elements that CAN be used to paint preppers. \u00a0Know what to do when The Shit Hits the Fan? Don&#8217;t need to rely on The Government?<\/p>\n<p>Like any group preppers will include some nuts. I&#8217;ve met a few, but by and large they are simply the sort of person who plans ahead and practice &#8216;just in case&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So The National Geographic Channel is about to premiere\u00a0Doomsday Preppers\u00a0to the world. Long a rather quiet &hellip; <a title=\"Are &#8220;Doomsday Preppers&#8221; Just Paranoid Nuts?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are &#8220;Doomsday Preppers&#8221; Just Paranoid Nuts?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}