{"id":6429,"date":"2004-09-02T17:46:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T00:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/02\/et-phone-us.html"},"modified":"2004-09-02T17:46:40","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T00:46:40","slug":"et_phone_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/02\/et_phone_us.html","title":{"rendered":"ET, Phone Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really don’t expect this story — possible “contact” signals received via the SETI project<\/a> — to pan out.<\/p>\n

But, damn<\/em>, it would be interesting if it did. Both per se<\/em>, and to see the reactions that people had to it.<\/p>\n

(via Stan)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really don’t expect this story — possible “contact” signals received via the SETI project — to pan out. But, damn, it would be interesting if it did. Both per…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41904,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/has-seti-struck-gold.html","url_meta":{"origin":6429,"position":0},"title":"Has SETI struck gold?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-May-14 10:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hell if I know. 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