{"id":232,"date":"2003-08-25T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T11:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=232"},"modified":"2003-08-25T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T11:39:25","slug":"black-out-whammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Black-out whammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>C<\/span>NN curled my toes today when AM&#8217;s ms. O&#8217;Brien mentioned (and showed) the great black-out picture from space. Apparantly CNN is not aware of the Snopes site (of urban legends fame),  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/photos\/blackout.asp\">which named the very same picture a hoax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The original image appears to be a composite satellite photograph of nighttime North America which someone has manipulated with an editing program to darken the northeastern area.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update 10:00am: it looks like Soledad O&#8217;Brien corrected the error, assisted by Space Shuttle Expert Reporter Miles O&#8217;Brien (apparantly not related).<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN curled my toes today when AM&#8217;s ms. O&#8217;Brien mentioned (and showed) the great black-out picture from space. Apparantly CNN is not aware of the Snopes site (of urban legends fame), which named the very same picture a hoax. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=232\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}