{"id":2086,"date":"2012-02-23T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T23:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:42:26","slug":"oregon-coast-ufo-boxes-hoax-heats-up-disrupts-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/02\/23\/oregon-coast-ufo-boxes-hoax-heats-up-disrupts-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Coast UFO Boxes Hoax Heats Up, Disrupts Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beachconnection.net\/news\/seas_ufo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Florence, Oregon) \u2013 A rash of outrageous and hilariously odd stories about beach junk on the central Oregon coast turned a slightly dark corner last week when the claims about \u201cmysterious metal boxes,\u201d caused such a stir on the Net that various entities and individuals were forced to waste resources, man hours and money to either look for these objects or answer an irritatingly large tsunami of questions from over-excited media outlets. Still even less reputable websites engaged in a disturbing display of spreading unfounded claims, as some further embellished the original tale with even more preposterous yarns about a cover up, men in black on the beaches, secret ops helicopters and much more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachconnection.net\/news\/seas_ufo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; (Florence, Oregon) \u2013 A rash of outrageous and hilariously odd stories about beach junk on the central Oregon coast turned a slightly dark corner last week when the claims about \u201cmysterious metal boxes,\u201d caused such a stir on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/02\/23\/oregon-coast-ufo-boxes-hoax-heats-up-disrupts-lives\/\">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-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","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=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}