{"id":1090293,"date":"2023-06-16T05:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=286296"},"modified":"2023-06-16T05:48:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T05:48:09","slug":"living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/16\/living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Living on a Smoke Bomb of a Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, it\u2019s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather \u2014 so it seemed to me \u2014 the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie as hell.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/16\/living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/16\/living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet\/\">Living on a Smoke Bomb of a Planet<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/16\/living-on-a-smoke-bomb-of-a-planet\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, it\u2019s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather \u2014 so it seemed to me \u2014 the orange planet. And take my word for it, it was eerie a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092441,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090293\/revisions\/1092441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}