{"id":607,"date":"2015-09-26T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2015-11-01T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:10:55","slug":"zombie-popepocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Popepocalypse!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maddie Stone wrote a great post for Gizmodo yesterday on the City of Philadelphia&#8217;s preparation for the Pope&#8217;s visit to Philly. While not quite the rant like my post a couple of days ago, she expressed a number of the same concerns, comparing the plans to the movie <em>28 Days Later<\/em> where officials quarantine the population to prevent a zombie contagion (you can read her full post here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/phillys-preparations-for-pope-francis-are-like-a-dry-ru-1732747345\">Philly&#8217;s Preparations for Pope Francis are Like a Dry Run for the Apocalypse<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to think is it is more like the deserted scenes of London after the virus has spread early in the film:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Traffic-Cam.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-610\" src=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Traffic-Cam-300x237.jpg\"  alt=\"Traffic Cam\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Traffic-Cam-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Traffic-Cam.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a view from a traffic cam looking eastbound on the Schuykill Expressway east of Spring Garden Street just west of Center City this afternoon. It would normally be bumper-to-bumper traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But then again, maybe we have been quarantined. These are all the streets which have been closed to traffic:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_613\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Google-Maps-Traffic.jpg\" class=\"gallery_colorbox\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-613 \" src=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Google-Maps-Traffic-300x189.jpg\"  alt=\"Google Maps Traffic\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Google-Maps-Traffic-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Google-Maps-Traffic.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Maps Traffic View Showing<br \/>Street Closings in Center City<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maddie Stone wrote a great post for Gizmodo yesterday on the City of Philadelphia&#8217;s preparation for the Pope&#8217;s visit to Philly. While not quite the rant like my post a couple of days ago, she expressed a number of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/?p=607\">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":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[22,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p350KG-9N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinch-to-zoom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}