{"id":7535,"date":"2014-01-01T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2019-08-12T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:10:52","slug":"predictions-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyshead.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/predictions-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"My Predictions for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City will attempt to ban any food that doesn&#8217;t fit inside a &#8220;fun-size&#8221; candy bar wrapper.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty will continue to expand his profile of pseudo importance as a spokesperson for the rights of the culturally narrow until his untimely death in a freak beard accident involving squirrels, chewing gum, and a tangle of bailing wire.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado will complete an initial study on the effects of recreational marijuana sales but will be forced to admit, near the end of 2014 and around a mouthful of Skittles, that they lost the results somewhere behind the couch.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Hollywood will revolutionize the summer-blockbuster by producing action-packed, CGI-laden films with virtually no scripts attached. (oh, sorry, this is isn&#8217;t a prediction but, rather a report of the last ten years &#8211; my bad)<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives in Utah will protest against legalizing same-sex divorce, stating that doing so &#8220;will forever damage the fabric of dissolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Republicans will continue to see each other as whiny, little bitches who are ruining this country &#8211; and they&#8217;ll be right.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong Un will have a hand-puppet shot but will pardon the puppeteer beforehand, following some behind-the-scenes wrangling with Dennis Rodman.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous sports teams will win major sporting events, giving their fans the momentary illusion of having been a part of achieving something of value, which they will then proceed to lord over the rest of us for about a week.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare will continue to be the biggest disaster any leader has ever inflicted upon any nation, in the history of this or any world, real or imagined &#8211; but the benefits of the Affordable Care Act will slowly overshadow and nullify much of the negative feelings caused by it.<\/p>\n<p>More massive weather events will occur, destroying lives and costing untold billions of dollars but nothing on the scale of importance given to [name of young pop-performer] and their [public scandal designed to trigger Puritan outcry in a secretly salivating public].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City will attempt to ban any food that doesn&#8217;t fit inside a &#8220;fun-size&#8221; candy bar wrapper. 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