{"id":2679,"date":"2005-03-22T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:24:20","slug":"uhm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2679","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of All Kinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are close encounters of the <i>first<\/i> and <i>second<\/i> kind, may I ask?   I love that the movie doesn&#8217;t specify.  The title is mysterious if you do not know the answer, and I think it&#8217;s cool that it&#8217;s mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>So are encounters of the  <i>first<\/i> and <i>second<\/i> kind like sightings of flying saucers and such?  Only the <i>third<\/i> kind is a face-to-face meeting?<\/p>\n<p>Please explain.<\/p>\n<p>And just for fun:  God, I remember this movie poster.  Don&#8217;t you?  It was everywhere.  To my nostalgic mind, it appears to capture an entire era (perhaps not as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2649\">THIS poster<\/a>, but pretty close!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are close encounters of the first and second kind, may I ask? I love that the movie doesn&#8217;t specify. The title is mysterious if you do not know the answer, and I think it&#8217;s cool that it&#8217;s mysterious. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[410,1149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178328,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/178328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}