{"id":4523,"date":"2003-08-13T07:19:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2003-08-13T07:19:57","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T14:19:57","slug":"get_your_eyes_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/13\/get_your_eyes_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Eyes to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is closer to Earth this month than it has been for <a title=\"Telegraph | News | Mars moves closer to earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2003\/08\/13\/umars.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2003\/08\/13\/ixportaltop.html\">60,000 years<\/a>.  The closest point will be on the evening of 26 August.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that when the invasion is supposed to commence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars is closer to Earth this month than it has been for 60,000 years. The closest point will be on the evening of 26 August. 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