{"id":667,"date":"2011-05-27T19:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=667"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T18:13:35","slug":"kook-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Kook of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I commend one Giorgio A. <strong> <\/strong>Tsoukalos. The first sentence of his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giorgio_A._Tsoukalos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia page<\/a> says it all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Giorgio A. Tsoukalos<\/strong> (born March 14, 1978) is a <a title=\"Swiss\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swiss\">Swiss<\/a> born <a title=\"Greek people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_people\">Greek<\/a> writer and television presenter specializing in <a title=\"Ancient astronauts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_astronauts\">ancient astronaut<\/a> theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not that I don&#8217;t think ancient astronaut theory is fun and interesting, even Carl Sagan suggested it deserved a serious look.\u00a0 I just think this guy is like the Tommy Chong of space advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>Then again maybe I&#8217;m worse- he&#8217;s just telling a fun story. I&#8217;m saying if we don&#8217;t start building spaceships like Noah on steroids then we&#8217;re all going to die. Yeah, I&#8217;m worse.<\/p>\n<p>So I hereby rescind the &#8216;Kook of the Month&#8217; award. That was quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I commend one Giorgio A. Tsoukalos. The first sentence of his wikipedia page says it all. &#8220;Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (born March 14, 1978) is a Swiss born Greek writer and television presenter specializing in ancient astronaut theory.&#8221; Not that I don&#8217;t think ancient astronaut theory is fun and interesting, even Carl Sagan suggested it <a href='http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=667' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}