{"id":210,"date":"2006-10-22T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T21:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2006-10-22T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T21:35:45","slug":"unreal-estate-for-some-the-moons-the-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/22\/unreal-estate-for-some-the-moons-the-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal estate &#8212; for some, the moon&#8217;s the limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"mailto:surreal@sfgate.com\">Carol Lloyd<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">Sunday, October 22, 2006<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\">What do you get when you take the real away from real estate?  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Unreal Estate, of course. Otherwise known as space real estate, this  intergalactic enterprise zone has been around for centuries.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">About 250 years ago, Prussia&#8217;s King Frederick deeded the moon to a farmer  with &#8220;healing powers.&#8221; In 1937, one A.D. Lindsay of Ocilla, Ga., claimed title  to all &#8220;planets, islands-of-space or other matter.&#8221;   <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Since the Space Age got under way in the late 1950s, there&#8217;s been a steady  stream of extraterrestrial claims issuing from every corner of the globe. In  1966, the moon was annexed by citizens of Geneva, Ohio. Whether a high-flown  fundraising concept for planetariums or the ultimate romantic novelty item, the  very idea of outer space real estate has inspired a motley array of charitable  organizations, small startups and even governments.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2006\/10\/22\/REGIELSHR91.DTL\">More&#8230;&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Lloyd Sunday, October 22, 2006 What do you get when you take the real away from real estate? Unreal Estate, of course. Otherwise known as space real estate, this intergalactic enterprise zone has been around for centuries. About 250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/22\/unreal-estate-for-some-the-moons-the-limit\/\">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-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}