{"id":11093,"date":"2020-11-27T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:37:07","slug":"monolith-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/27\/monolith-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Monolith Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/utah-monolith-1926274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Mysterious Steel Monolith Was Discovered in the Utah Desert. Is It a Work of Art\u2014or the Work of Aliens?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Theories about who or what is behind the object have started circulating online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2001: A Space Odyssey, black monolith\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHWs3c3YNs4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cue\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QwxYiVXYyVs&amp;ab_channel=grafou194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Also sprach Zarathustra<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mysterious steel monolith has been discovered deep in the red rock canyons of southern Utah. And no one seems to know who\u2014or what\u2014is behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers from the Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS)\u00a0eyed the object\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dpsnews.utah.gov\/dps-aero-bureau-encounters-monolith-in-red-rock-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from a helicopter last week<\/a>\u00a0while counting bighorn sheep in the area. The spotters were quick to posit two theories about the polished steel block: it\u2019s either a work of art, or the work of aliens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m assuming it\u2019s some new-wave artist or something or, you know, somebody that was a big \u20182001: A Space Odyssey\u2019 fan,\u201d Bret Hutchings, the helicopter pilot, told the Utah news outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ksltv.com\/449486\/dps-crew-discovers-mysterious-monolith-from-air-in-remote-utah-wilderness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KSL 5 News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/utah-monolith-1926274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet A Mysterious Steel Monolith Was Discovered in the Utah Desert. Is It a Work of Art\u2014or the Work of Aliens? Theories about who or what is behind the object have started circulating online. Cue\u00a0Also sprach Zarathustra.\u00a0 A mysterious steel monolith has been discovered deep in the red rock canyons of southern Utah. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}