{"id":2812,"date":"2009-12-27T23:42:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T04:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2009-12-28T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:21:11","slug":"reports-of-flying-saucers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/27\/reports-of-flying-saucers\/","title":{"rendered":"reports of flying saucers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Google announces Google Earth 5]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At first, the planet appears as a small blue sphere<br \/>\nwhich rapidly expands until tan and green land masses<br \/>\nappear, surrounded by blue water through which the<br \/>\ncontours of the bottom are evident. I manipulate my<br \/>\ncontrol: I swoop toward the surface, accelerating;<br \/>\nand the planet appears to spin beneath me. I can zig<br \/>\nand zag, stop, study, resume my<!--more--> flight in any direction<br \/>\nwith no regard for the laws of physics. I can zoom down<br \/>\nto my fisheye orb, instantly stop on any street and<br \/>\nobserve, invisible. Let me set all silly speculation<br \/>\nto rest: I do not, nor do any of my species inhabit<br \/>\na glass box in Area 51. I just like Googling around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a spin around the planet on Google Earth yesterday: some of this seems very silly and very familiar. (#1016) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/27\/reports-of-flying-saucers\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3],"tags":[268,855,854],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","tag-ufos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}