{"id":877,"date":"2012-05-25T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=877"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:13:51","slug":"not-going-to-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/not-going-to-roswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Going to Roswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/area51channel.blogspot.com\/p\/roswell.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-880\" title=\"Roswell-UFO\" src=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Roswell-UFO-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Roswell-UFO\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m in Capitan, New Mexico right now. The birth and final resting place of Smokey Bear. (Not Smokey THE Bear just Smokey Bear. Get it right you soft-shoed urbanite.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning \u00a0how to track people. When I&#8217;m done I&#8217;ll be able to wear a patch that say &#8220;Tactical Tracker&#8221; on it. My inner boy is so excited he can hardly breathe. I think it&#8217;s pretty cool too.<\/p>\n<p>70 miles away is Roswell, NM, site of the infamous Roswell UFO Incident. The town apparently has no bars of note, and no clubs, so I will not be going.<\/p>\n<p>I will, however, point out that an old religious leader of mine, a mormon bishop, claimed, in all seriousness, to have been one of the Air Force MPs mobilized to provide security around the crash site on that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p>If the government really is covering up the recovery of an alien spaceship, well, somebody is going to pay, someday.<\/p>\n<p>If by no other method than hordes of aging and disappointed SF fanboys hunting them through the streets like Han Solo after a TaunTaun on the Orient Express. There will probably be other groups involved in the gutting too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Capitan, New Mexico right now. The birth and final resting place of Smokey Bear. (Not Smokey THE Bear just Smokey Bear. Get it right you soft-shoed urbanite.) I&#8217;m learning \u00a0how to track people. When I&#8217;m done I&#8217;ll be able to wear a patch that say &#8220;Tactical Tracker&#8221; on it. My inner boy is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/not-going-to-roswell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Going to Roswell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,11,12,14,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-hubris","category-national-guard","category-politics","category-science","category-scientifiction","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}