{"id":343,"date":"2017-12-28T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T06:25:21","slug":"strange-things-are-afoot-in-the-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/28\/strange-things-are-afoot-in-the-oc\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange things afoot in the OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we decided to go out to dinner and saw something unusual in the sky.\u00a0 The first thing we saw was a glowing cloud, followed by a few different bright lights and some strange pulsing rings.\u00a0 We pulled over and watched the last of it pass by and had no idea what we just saw.<\/p>\n<p>We turned on the radio and I checked Twitter, Facebook etc and it eventually got out that it was a SpaceX rocket launch.\u00a0 But for a few minutes, we were left to wonder if this was the alien arrival we&#8217;ve seen in the movies.\u00a0 I immediately thought, well, if they came all this way and and they want to destroy us, we have no chance against their technology.\u00a0 And then we thought, oh well, we&#8217;re hungry.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s go eat Chinese food because they&#8217;ll be open (which they weren&#8217;t, but for a different, non-extraterrestrial reason)!<\/p>\n<p>It was a really interesting experience.\u00a0 We went from seeing aliens to welcoming our new alien overlords to wanting to eat Chinese food in a few minutes.\u00a0 It sure would&#8217;ve been nice if Elon Musk and SpaceX announced it because a lot of people freaked out.\u00a0 And I would&#8217;ve made time to look outside to watch the launch and we would&#8217;ve ordered Chinese food instead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SpaceX Iridium 4 Launch from Alhambra, CA\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tE5C3O71Xqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we decided to go out to dinner and saw something unusual in the sky.\u00a0 The first thing we saw was a glowing cloud, followed by a few different bright lights and some strange pulsing rings.\u00a0 We pulled over and watched the last of it pass by and had no idea what we just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,21,23],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life","tag-random","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}