{"id":170,"date":"2006-07-25T06:13:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:26:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:26:41","slug":"ubiquitous-abductions-let%e2%80%99s-just-suppose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/25\/ubiquitous-abductions-let%e2%80%99s-just-suppose\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquitous Abductions: Let&#8217;s Just Suppose. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articleBy\">R. Lee<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleDate\">July 24, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Probably most of us are jaded about alien abductions by now. Does it matter if you&#8217;re a skeptic, debunker, UFOlogoist, or everyday citizen with passing, if any, interest in the subject; we&#8217;re all used to the motif of the alien abduction that it elicits an amused &#8212; or bemused, depending &#8212; shrug of a little laugh.<\/p>\n<p>We see the little inverted triangular faces with the queen bee eyes everywhere; on candy wrappers, tee shirts, skateboards, jewelry, note cards, advertising. Comedians make jokes; the references to being probed and abducted are everywhere in pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Belief&#8221;\u009d is not an issue; the point is moot. Everyone knows what one means when commenting on alien abductions. No need to go further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchronicle.com\/articles\/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Lee July 24, 2006 Probably most of us are jaded about alien abductions by now. Does it matter if you&#8217;re a skeptic, debunker, UFOlogoist, or everyday citizen with passing, if any, interest in the subject; we&#8217;re all used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/25\/ubiquitous-abductions-let%e2%80%99s-just-suppose\/\">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-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}