{"id":422735,"date":"2018-01-03T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f986fb1a9e0547647412dc78522e3abf"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:49:00","slug":"ufo-investigations-the-science-and-the-will-to-believe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=422735","title":{"rendered":"UFO Investigations: The Science And The Will To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/01\/03\/istock-140408587_wide-048c9004aaa16c3a1bd3003cf016f34d837267a2.jpg?s=600' alt='A sign marks the path leading to a supposed UFO crash site outside Roswell, N.M.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Employing science&#8217;s methodology is key \u2014 as it&#8217;s the best antidote we have to the very human propensity to turn something we want to believe into a reality, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: ElvisFontenot\/Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=575276342' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employing science&#8217;s methodology is key &mdash; as it&#8217;s the best antidote we have to the very human propensity to turn something we want to believe into a reality, says astrophysicist Marcelo Gleiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1720,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422736,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422735\/revisions\/422736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}