{"id":196,"date":"2006-09-13T10:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2006-09-13T10:24:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T14:24:57","slug":"ufos-an-unreasonable-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/13\/ufos-an-unreasonable-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"UFOs: An Unreasonable Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might think by the title of this post that I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t believe in UFOs. Quite the contrary. So you skeptics out there might as well just write me off.<em>(Oh, good.  You\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re not a skeptic.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The number of people who \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cbelieve in UFOs\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d is impressive, a sizable percentage of the general public, depending what poll you want to listen to on any given day. The reasonable citizen will usually cite the argument that \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cit only makes sense that there would be life elsewhere in the universe.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d It would be, as Jodie Foster\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s character in the movie <em>Contact<\/em> says, \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201can awful waste of space.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.danielbrenton.com\/2006\/09\/12\/ufos-an-unreasonable-argument\/\">much MUCH more! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think by the title of this post that I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t believe in UFOs. Quite the contrary. So you skeptics out there might as well just write me off.(Oh, good. You\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re not a skeptic.) The number of people who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/09\/13\/ufos-an-unreasonable-argument\/\">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-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}