{"id":648,"date":"2006-01-09T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-01-09T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T04:05:07","slug":"on-photographing-area-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"On Photographing Area 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doubtless this will be of no interest to anyone but myself, but I found this article interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974 astronauts aboard the Skylab space station, in taking photographs of Earth from orbit, photographed something they should not have photographed &mdash; the Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, better known to conspiracy nuts as Area 51.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/531\/1\">This article<\/a> at the Space Review, describes the fallout from the illicit photograph and the delicate balance between the need for national security and the need for openness in scientific endeavors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubtless this will be of no interest to anyone but myself, but I found this article interesting. In 1974 astronauts aboard the Skylab space station, in taking photographs of Earth from orbit, photographed something they should not have photographed &mdash; the Air Force base at Groom Lake, Nevada, better known to conspiracy nuts as Area<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=648\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Photographing Area 51&#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":[128],"tags":[1040,4111,4138],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-area-51","tag-astronomy","tag-nasa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}