{"id":469,"date":"2004-05-12T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=469"},"modified":"2004-05-12T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T20:19:18","slug":"watch_the_skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2004\/05\/12\/international1329EDT6039.DTL\">Mysterious lights spotted over Mexico<\/a>.  Hmm, looks like some devotees of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0286106\/\">Signs<\/a> are having a little fun with the Mexican Air Force.  Pictures or video of UFOs pop up seemingly every few months, but they never prove anything conclusive.  It&#8217;s either taken at night or the image is blurry or there&#8217;s a tree in the way or&#8211;you get the idea.  You never see any pictures of a spacecraft hovering over Times Square during the lunch hour, and until that happens I&#8217;ll remain a skeptic.  Sure, it&#8217;s theoretically possible that aliens are surreptitiously cruising around the globe, teasing the occasional amateur photographer and molesting the occasional cow, but the universe must offer much <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040512.html\">more interesting sights<\/a> than our little backwater planet.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a good activity for a rainy afternoon.  <a href=\"http:\/\/is.rice.edu\/~pound\/hugo.html\">All of this year&#8217;s Hugo nominees<\/a> (except the novels) are on-line for your reading pleasure.  I haven&#8217;t perused any of them yet, but I plan to this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mysterious lights spotted over Mexico. Hmm, looks like some devotees of the movie Signs are having a little fun with the Mexican Air Force. Pictures or video of UFOs pop up seemingly every few months, but they never prove anything conclusive. It&#8217;s either taken at night or the image is blurry or there&#8217;s a tree <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=469' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-7z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}