{"id":143,"date":"2003-04-05T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=143"},"modified":"2003-04-05T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T02:45:36","slug":"sf-meme-journeys-to-real-world-or-so-they-would-have-us-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/04\/05\/sf-meme-journeys-to-real-world-or-so-they-would-have-us-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"SF meme journeys to "Real World" (or so they would have us believe)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Peter and I were out running some errands in the nearest shopping town (as usual, these errands centered mostly around cat food) when we ran into Brian, an acquaintance who works in forestry and organic farming. He told us (with some amusement) about this story,<\/a> which I’m delighted to find was not an April Fool’s joke of some kind. (However, the source, the Weekly World News,<\/a> is a tabloid of the type which routinely publishes headlines along the lines of Dwarf Rapes Nun — Flees in UFO.<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

“Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!”<\/p>\n

What would be fun now, if I wasn’t up to my nose in other things, would be to find out whether there was the slightest grain of truth from which this story might have grown. …Yeah, I know, I’m the eternal optomist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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