{"id":30088,"date":"2015-05-20T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=30088"},"modified":"2015-05-31T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T09:25:10","slug":"scotland-yard-worried-that-star-trek-would-cause-a-doomsday-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2015\/05\/scotland-yard-worried-that-star-trek-would-cause-a-doomsday-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Yard Worried That Star Trek Would Cause a Doomsday Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Laura J. Burns &#038; Melinda Metz&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=865045696878175&#038;id=111556225560463\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;ROSWELL WAS ON THIS LIST! We did always feel like someone was watching us&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Scotland Yard Worried That Star Trek Would Cause a Doomsday Cult<\/h3>\n<p>by Katharine Trendacosta<\/p>\n<p>New documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request show that Scotland Yard kept a secret dossier on various science fiction shows and movies out of a fear that they would cause rioting and cyber attacks. On the list of worrying imports were Star Trek, The X-Files, Roswell, Dark Skies, and Lawnmower Man. [&#8230;]<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/scotland-yard-worried-that-star-trek-would-cause-a-doom-1705721241\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland Yard Worried That Star Trek Would Cause a Doomsday Cult<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the authors on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Laura-J-Burns-Melinda-Metz\/111556225560463\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Laura J. Burns &#038; Melinda Metz&#8217; Facebook: &#8220;ROSWELL WAS ON THIS LIST! We did always feel like someone was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2210,2388,2384,5],"tags":[2457],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-30088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-directors","category-laura-j-burns","category-melinda-metz","category-roswell","tag-roswell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30089,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088\/revisions\/30089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30088"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}