{"id":1341,"date":"2007-09-18T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2007-09-18T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:46:05","slug":"on-a-case-for-torchwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"On a Case for Torchwood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070918\/sc_afp\/peruhealthoffbeat\">A meteorite crash in Peru has led to a series of mysterious illnesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a &#8220;strange odor,&#8221; local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.<\/p>\n<p>Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A case for Torchwood?  Is Captain Jack on the case?<\/p>\n<p>The reality is probably far more mundane &mdash; an outgassing of toxic chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteorite crash in Peru has led to a series of mysterious illnesses. Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday. Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1341\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Case for Torchwood?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[4105,9],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-torchwood","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}