{"id":175773,"date":"2020-12-02T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/02\/this-sh-is-getting-completely-out-of-hand\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:17:00","slug":"this-sh-is-getting-completely-out-of-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/02\/this-sh-is-getting-completely-out-of-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sh%$ is Getting Completely Out of Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Utah, then Romania, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/02\/new-monolith-california-mountaintop-atascadero\">a mystery monolith has appeared in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is getting old: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/atascaderonews.com\/news\/mystery-obelisk-appears-on-pine-mountain\/\">local newspaper <\/a>in the small town of Atascadero, on the central California coast, reported that the silvery column had been found atop Pine mountain where dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CITjY0UHDe3\/?igshid=1dbu0370hejei\">local hikers<\/a> made the trip to view it \u2013 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CITTc6UlmeW\/?igshid=1flnvnp256euq\">post their pictures<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIT8yHNlPYN\/?igshid=12nmclewn0la0\">the internet<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three-sided obelisk appeared to be made of stainless steel, 10-feet tall and 18 inches wide. The object was welded together at each corner, with rivets attaching the side panels to a likely steel frame inside,\u201d the Atascadero News reported.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\ud83d\udea8 \ud83d\udea8 BREAKING NEWS \ud83d\udea8 \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>There is currently a monolith at the top of Pine Mountain in Atascadero!!<\/p>\n<p>(Photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Atownreporter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Atownreporter<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0vPhEWYkeY\">pic.twitter.com\/0vPhEWYkeY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014 Connor Allen (@ConnorCAllen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConnorCAllen\/status\/1334255906305921026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2020<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConnorCAllen\/status\/1334255906305921026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   This has gone from the most intriguing mystery out there to \u2026\u2026\u2026 Well \u2026\u2026\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planking_(fad)\">Planking<\/a> in about 2 weeks.<a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YQhdOrx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YQhdOrx.jpg\" width=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Utah, then Romania, and now a mystery monolith has appeared in California. This is getting old: The local newspaper in the small town of Atascadero, on the central California coast, reported that the silvery column had been found atop Pine mountain where dozens of local hikers made the trip to view it \u2013 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,628,421],"class_list":["post-175773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-fads","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}