{"id":990,"date":"2003-03-11T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T07:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/11\/happy-space-alien-day\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:58:49","slug":"happy-space-alien-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/11\/happy-space-alien-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Space Alien Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15132,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2361082&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050405092438\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com:80\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:38:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:38:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Dad sent me a link to an amusing story today about how New Mexico Representative Dan Foley has proposed legislation to create Space Alien Day &#8212; to &#8220;enhance relationships among all the citizens of the cosmos, <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2361082\" title=\"Happy Space Alien Day!\">known and unknown<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amusing enough on its own, but the kicker for me was the final quote from Rep.\u00a0Foley, which goes down in my book as one of my favorite political quotes ever&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  If we can capitalize on something that did or did not happen in 1947 then it can help the entire state.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, the number of times in my life &#8212; past, present, and future &#8212; when it&#8217;d be <em>so<\/em> nice to capitalize on something that did or did not happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the number of times in my life &mdash; past, present, and future &mdash; when it&#8217;d be so nice to capitalize on something that did or did not happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}