{"id":7356,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/his-home-made-rocket-will-prove-the-earth-is-flat\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:31","slug":"his-home-made-rocket-will-prove-the-earth-is-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/his-home-made-rocket-will-prove-the-earth-is-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"His Home-Made Rocket Will Prove The Earth Is Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California man is fighting the government for the right to fire himself 1,800 feet above the Mojave Desert in a home-made, steam-powered rocket.  He wants to do this to prove the Earth is flat.  &#8220;Mad&#8221; Mike Hughes had billed his debut flight as a first step toward ultimately photographing Earth from outer space and proving that previous photos showing a round planet were faked.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in science,&#8221; Hughes says.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials blocked Hughes from taking off from public land, so he plans to take off from private property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy,&#8221; he says of his mission, &#8220;because it&#8217;s not supposed to be easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man is fighting the government for the right to fire himself 1,800 feet above the Mojave Desert in a home-made, steam-powered rocket. He wants to do this to prove the Earth is flat. &#8220;Mad&#8221; Mike Hughes had billed his debut flight as a first step toward ultimately photographing Earth from outer space and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5246,5244,1070,5245,1051],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}