{"id":1466,"date":"2010-07-16T06:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2010-07-16T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:47:05","slug":"holy-shit-these-things-are-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"Holy Shit, These Things Are <i>Real<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/technology\/science\/organism\/giant-hogweed-0x39baaa\/topic.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"HogweedHeadline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hogweed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I go <em>running<\/em> in the Don Valley. \u00a0And something did kind of sting my face the other day, as I brushed past a low-hanging branch. \u00a0Felt like a nettle. \u00a0A two-meter-high nettle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I thought Genesis was just ripping off Wyndham&#8217;s Triffids. \u00a0 I thought it was just standard seventies prog-rock science fiction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/svSVnvYhc5Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/svSVnvYhc5Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Yes, this is a cover. \u00a0A recent one. \u00a0Early-seventies production values just don&#8217;t hold up on Youtube&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I go running in the Don Valley. \u00a0And something did kind of sting my face the other day, as I brushed past a low-hanging branch. \u00a0Felt like a nettle. \u00a0A two-meter-high nettle&#8230; I thought Genesis was just ripping off Wyndham&#8217;s Triffids. \u00a0 I thought it was just standard seventies prog-rock science fiction&#8230; (Yes, this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}