{"id":169,"date":"2006-07-25T06:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:24:08","slug":"intergalactic-service-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/25\/intergalactic-service-with-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Intergalactic service with a smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rule one when going to a planned UFO sighting: don&#8217;t be too hopeful of being whisked away by giant, gently glowing, triple-breasted or amply hung aliens. Rule two: carry a handy tab of some hallucinogenic substance, in case of disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, both mind-altering psychedelics and nubile extraterrestrials were in short supply on the farm in KwaZulu-Natal&#8217;s Kamberg Valley visited by the <em>Mail &amp; Guardian<\/em> this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlePage.aspx?articleid=278551&amp;area=\/insight\/insight__national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule one when going to a planned UFO sighting: don&#8217;t be too hopeful of being whisked away by giant, gently glowing, triple-breasted or amply hung aliens. Rule two: carry a handy tab of some hallucinogenic substance, in case of disappointment. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/25\/intergalactic-service-with-a-smile\/\">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-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}