{"id":2474,"date":"2021-05-07T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:25:40","slug":"we-need-more-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"We Need More Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out up above, dude, it&#8217;s the falling Chinese rocket!<\/p>\n<div>It&#8217;s gotta land somewhere, but they don&#8217;t know how to clock it.<\/div>\n<div>It could crash in New York, L.A., Rio or Beijing.<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s twenty tons, nine stories tall, so, really, no big thing.<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s tumbling out of orbit, eighteen thousand miles an hour.<\/div>\n<div>This is not your typical small mass of space junk shower.<\/div>\n<div>The risk of killing people, Chinese say, is really small.<\/div>\n<div>Perhaps it will fall in the sea, not killing folks at all.<\/div>\n<div>The risk of death by falling metal&#8217;s\u00a0like the lottery.<\/div>\n<div>Some poor sap gets the big one, suddenly is history.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out up above, dude, it&#8217;s the falling Chinese rocket! It&#8217;s gotta land somewhere, but they don&#8217;t know how to clock it. It could crash in New York, L.A., Rio or Beijing. It&#8217;s twenty tons, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2474\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2503,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2503","url_meta":{"origin":2474,"position":0},"title":"A Brief Debris","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The world is at a standstill. There is no such thing as time. Every inch into the modern world's considered\u00a0blatant crime. 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