{"id":743,"date":"2009-01-13T07:19:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2009-01-13T07:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T11:19:40","slug":"skys-the-limit-clinton-township-man-doesnt-let-society-confine-dreams-of-creating-flying-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/13\/skys-the-limit-clinton-township-man-doesnt-let-society-confine-dreams-of-creating-flying-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky&#8217;s the limit: Clinton Township man doesn&#8217;t let society confine dreams of creating flying machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bilde.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-744\" title=\"bilde\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bilde.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Charlie LeDuff \/ The Detroit News<\/h4>\n<p><strong>CLINTON TOWNSHIP<\/strong> &#8212; The Macomb County moon man stood next to his forlorn flying saucer, which sat perched on milk crates in a weedy patch along Interstate 94. He railed against corporate conspirators and misinformed scientists.<\/p>\n<p>According to the moon man, a nefarious cabal has blocked him from laying his hands on the necessary money to complete his perpetual flying machine<strong> &#8212;<\/strong> a machine he says, that could reach Mars in a mere two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bankers promise calls they never return,&#8221; said Alfie Carrington, who when not working in his laboratory makes ends meet as a part-time construction worker. &#8220;The governor&#8217;s office told my mother no. And these so called scientific experts who have never seen it, say it won&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090113\/METRO\/901130364\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie LeDuff \/ The Detroit News CLINTON TOWNSHIP &#8212; The Macomb County moon man stood next to his forlorn flying saucer, which sat perched on milk crates in a weedy patch along Interstate 94. He railed against corporate conspirators and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/13\/skys-the-limit-clinton-township-man-doesnt-let-society-confine-dreams-of-creating-flying-machine\/\">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-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}