{"id":28195,"date":"2021-05-13T07:12:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28195"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:27:08","slug":"spotted-my-neighborhood-in-the-british-tabloids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/13\/spotted-my-neighborhood-in-the-british-tabloids\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted My Neighborhood In The British Tabloids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not exactly my neighborhood, but my region in the <em>Daily Star<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/owl13.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s to this &#8220;story:&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/owls-psychic-aliens-behind-ufo-24089724\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Owls are psychic aliens behind UFO abductions and spooky events, bizarre book says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The caption in the article reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A driver was miraculously uninjured after spotting an owl on a mountain highway and crashing, says the book<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether this story takes place in the Ozarks, but the picture does.  I was on Highway 13 today; it enters Springfield from the south as Massey\/Campbell Road coming up from Kimberling City, jogs over on the James River Freeway and then runs north out of town on Kansas Expressway.  When I drive to Kansas City I take Highway 13 up to Clinton and then jog was on 7.<\/p>\n<p>No telling if the story from the book takes place down here or if that&#8217;s just the owl on a highway sign they found on the Internet.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m going to buy the book to find out.<\/p>\n<p>(This is the second time this spring that my neighborhood, roughly, has made it on the Internet; the first was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/03\/meanwhile-in-the-powerline-week-in-pictures-we-get-my-area\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this meme<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not exactly my neighborhood, but my region in the Daily Star: It&#8217;s to this &#8220;story:&#8221; Owls are psychic aliens behind UFO abductions and spooky events, bizarre book says. The caption in the article reads: A driver was miraculously uninjured after spotting an owl on a mountain highway and crashing, says the book It&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28195","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=28195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28196,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28195\/revisions\/28196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}