{"id":2695,"date":"2005-09-27T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2017-12-29T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:31:21","slug":"hopefully-the-gods-of-irony-are-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/hopefully-the-gods-of-irony-are-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully, the Gods of Irony Are Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A European Space Agency mission, named Don Quijote, might practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEML9B8X9DE_index_0.html\" target=\"_new\">deflecting asteroids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Geez, does anyone else think that the result of the mission might be akin to a break in billiards, where a bunch of things go flying off in all directions, making previously not dangerous Near Earth Objects into killers?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, they did name it <i>Don Quijote<\/i>, for crying out loud.  Also, they have an aging population which weighs upon their economies that cries out for a radical solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European Space Agency mission, named Don Quijote, might practice deflecting asteroids. Geez, does anyone else think that the result of the mission might be akin to a break in billiards, where a bunch of things go flying off in all directions, making previously not dangerous Near Earth Objects into killers? I mean, they did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}