{"id":167,"date":"2006-07-22T22:03:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-07-22T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T03:55:05","slug":"when-aliens-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/22\/when-aliens-called\/","title":{"rendered":"When aliens called"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/images\/pix.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<div class=\"bigheadline\">When aliens called<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">Ric Hernandez<\/div>\n<div class=\"dateline\">Saturday, July 22nd 2006<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/images\/pix.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/images\/pix.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<td>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/shared\/images\/2006\/07\/22\/op-rh.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"texte\">We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to space walks on TV and tethered astronauts effecting repairs out there that the notion of space sometimes seems, not something palpable, but merely the stuff of &#8220;news&#8221;.Not so in a relatively small area on US Highway 60, New Mexico, where you&#8217;re brought face to face with continuing radio probes into space and, extraordinarily, the prospect of visitors from beyond the stars.Trundling along the windswept miles, with not much to see, you&#8217;re suddenly startled by what looks like a display of monumental public art: things looking like tiny discs, spaced at regular intervals, covering miles of open landscape and replicated on the other side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_opinion?id=160986258\">More&#8230;.. <\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When aliens called Ric Hernandez Saturday, July 22nd 2006 We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to space walks on TV and tethered astronauts effecting repairs out there that the notion of space sometimes seems, not something palpable, but merely the stuff of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/22\/when-aliens-called\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}