{"id":516,"date":"2008-10-23T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/3033-pumpkin-object\/"},"modified":"2008-10-23T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T11:41:00","slug":"3033-pumpkin-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/23\/3033-pumpkin-object\/","title":{"rendered":"30\/33, pumpkin, object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time yesterday for my swim, so I hauled ass in the pool.   30 laps, in 33 minutes.   I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a new record for me since I usually don&#8217;t pay attention to the time, but it felt pretty fast.<\/p>\n<p>Carved some pumpkins last night.   Well, I mostly scooped out the guts and my room-mate did more of the carving.  He did a pretty cool vampire face on his &#8211;  on mine I did a smiley emoticon.  It was clever, but not my idea.   We tried to get some photos, but couldn&#8217;t turn off the flash on his camera &#8211; time to read the manual, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>And when I went outside around 10:00 to put something in my car, I saw&#8230; something.<\/p>\n<p>There was a bright light in the sky &#8211; several times larger than a star.  There was no shape to it, just a very bright light and a faint contrail behind it.   It moved across the sky in a straight, horizontal line.   Very very fast and totally silent.   It flew over my head and I had to turn around to see it.   And then it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to talk to my room-mate about it &#8211; he&#8217;s pretty much Mulder Jr. on the subject of UFO&#8217;s &#8211; but he was strangely dismissive.  Here I was, a Scully who&#8217;s trying to believe and he writes it off as a shooting star.  Then we got into a minor argument about sonic booms and I dropped the issue.  Whatever it was, it was pretty weird.<\/p>\n<p>later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-7740215666358883774?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time yesterday for my swim, so I hauled ass in the pool. 30 laps, in 33 minutes. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a new record for me since I usually don&#8217;t pay attention to the time, but it felt pretty fast. Carved some pumpkins last night. Well, I mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}