{"id":2448,"date":"2012-12-11T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T20:36:14","slug":"5-signs-the-ufo-community-cant-take-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/12\/11\/5-signs-the-ufo-community-cant-take-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"5 signs the UFO community can\u2019t take a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev makes a crack about aliens, and conspiracists promptly lose their minds<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"5 signs the UFO community can't take a joke\" href=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2012\/12\/shutterstock_69525436.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"5 signs the UFO community can't take a joke\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2012\/12\/shutterstock_69525436-460x307.jpg\" alt=\"5 signs the UFO community can't take a joke\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>This article originally appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\">AlterNet<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.salon.com\/img\/partners\/ID_alternetInline.jpg\" alt=\"AlterNet\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Fresh off Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/Australia\/Australian-PM-warns-of-zombie-K-Pop-doomsday\/Article1-969057.aspx\">joking about the coming apocalypse\u00a0<\/a>in the year 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has made a quip about alien invasions \u2014 sparking fevered speculation from the fringes of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Medvedev joked during an interview that \u201ceach Russian leader gets two folders with information about extraterrestrials that visited our planet \u2014 and stayed here,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20121210\/NEWS08\/312100042\/Russian-leader-gets-laugh-over-alien-joke?nclick_check=1\">one news report said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with the briefcase with nuclear codes, the president of the country is given a special \u2018top secret\u2019 folder. This folder in its entirety contains information about aliens who visited our planet,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/338646\">Medvedev said during an interview with Ren TV.\u00a0<\/a>\u201cAlong with this, you are given a report of the absolutely secret special service that exercises control over aliens on the territory of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/10\/5_signs_the_ufo_community_cant_take_a_joke\/singleton\/\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev makes a crack about aliens, and conspiracists promptly lose their minds This article originally appeared on\u00a0AlterNet. Fresh off Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard\u00a0joking about the coming apocalypse\u00a0in the year 2012, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/12\/11\/5-signs-the-ufo-community-cant-take-a-joke\/\">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-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","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=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}