{"id":5763,"date":"2003-03-06T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:07:23","slug":"death_from_above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=5763","title":{"rendered":"death from above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">shitty domestic cars, confused cell phone carriers, frats, and george w. bush\u2026its not always easy to be \u201camerican\u201d. but then america gives us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/aviation\/article\/0,12543,424266-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> occasionally. a giant flying laser. how cool is that? in 1999, i was always wondering whether silver space suits, flying cars, and photon torpedoes would make it to us in time for 2000. i was pretty let down when i was still wearing t\u2019s and jncos january 1st. but jus when u think the future cant get here any faster, bus-sized lasers mounted inside military 747\u2019s come along to assure u that we are indeed in the 21st century. this, coupled with that invisibility cloak, makes me happy i wasnt raised in the dark ages. like the 60\u2019s or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/laser1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/laser1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/laser1-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/laser1-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shitty domestic cars, confused cell phone carriers, frats, and george w. bush\u2026its not always easy to be \u201camerican\u201d. but then america gives us this occasionally. a giant flying laser. how cool is that? in 1999, i was always wondering whether silver space suits, flying cars, and photon torpedoes would make it to us in time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}