{"id":4520,"date":"2011-04-10T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2011-04-10T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T01:30:52","slug":"why-its-getting-harder-and-harder-to-read-slashdot-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Getting Harder and Harder to Read Slashdot These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot header: <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/04\/10\/1429243\/FBI-Releases-Document-Confirming-Roswell-UFO\">FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actual story: FBI declassifies document in which an agent reports that some guy <i>claimed<\/i> there were flying saucers found at Roswell. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been known since the 1990s that the crash debris at Roswell came from balloons used in the classified <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Force_Reports_on_Roswell_UFO_Incident\">Project Mogul<\/a>, an attempt to monitor Soviet nuclear testing via atmospheric acoustics. While this explanation fits all the actual known data about the incident, most conspiracy theorists ignore it because a crashed balloon isn&#8217;t nearly as cool or interesting as crashed aliens. <\/p>\n<p>Look, I know a lot of what appears on Slashdot these days is just flamewar clickbait. But do you think you could avoid <i>actually lying about the link in the header<\/i>? Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot header: FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO. Actual story: FBI declassifies document in which an agent reports that some guy claimed there were flying saucers found at Roswell. It&#8217;s been known since the 1990s that the crash debris at Roswell came from balloons used in the classified Project Mogul, an attempt to monitor Soviet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,154],"tags":[425,422,971,970],"class_list":["post-4520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-weird","tag-alien-grays","tag-roswell","tag-slashdot","tag-ufo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}