{"id":3118,"date":"2006-08-15T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:18","slug":"out-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/15\/out-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Out the Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_0078.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_0078.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re still living in the country when a crop dusting plane is doing its pivot turns just outside your window.  I&#8217;ve been fascinated by crop dusters for decades.  They even found a way into my fiction.  In <b>Falling Bakward<\/b> South Dakota sunflower farmers fought off the pterodactyl-like aliens in an Air Tractor AT-503A.<br \/>I chose that one because it was a two-seater, which is pretty rare in a crop duster.<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/093693.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/093693.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know you&#8217;re still living in the country when a crop dusting plane is doing its pivot turns just outside your window. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by crop dusters for decades. They even found a way into my fiction. In Falling Bakward South Dakota sunflower farmers fought off the pterodactyl-like aliens in an Air Tractor AT-503A.I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/15\/out-window\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out the Window<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Oi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}