{"id":5774,"date":"2010-02-25T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:33","slug":"portal-to-the-id-world-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/portal-to-the-id-world-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal to the Id: World Weekly News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/horseboy.jpg\" alt=\"horseboy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what you say, the <em>World Weekly News<\/em> was an awesome publication. Like the Men in Black said, you get to hear about alien landings months in advance of any other source. I subscribed to it for years. I had it mailed to my office at Wired. I read it because it had the greatest headlines EVER. Before the web, it was the the single best portal into wonderful weirdness, obscure insanity, the cultural id, urban legends, and the gestalt of our times. Now entire decades of its epic awesome back issues are available for free<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/serial\/ISSN:0199574X?rview=1&#038;lr=&#038;sa=N&#038;start=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/wweekly.jpg\" alt=\"wweekly.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/\/bucketbaby.jpg\" alt=\"bucketbaby.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/pailbaby2.jpg\" alt=\"pailbaby2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care what you say, the World Weekly News was an awesome publication. Like the Men in Black said, you get to hear about alien landings months in advance of any other source. I subscribed to it for years. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/portal-to-the-id-world-weekly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}