{"id":32814,"date":"2021-04-28T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32814"},"modified":"2021-04-28T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:29:17","slug":"the-possibility-of-a-messy-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/28\/the-possibility-of-a-messy-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Possibility Of A Messy Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While those of us in the United States busy ourselves with either ignoring politics or indulging in it, the outside world is having its own frightfulness &#8211; and I&#8217;m not talking about <strong>Covid-19<\/strong>. No, this is all about people slinging old fashioned weapons at each other. From April 22:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A loud explosion caused by a missile strike was heard in Israel early Thursday morning, followed by reports of Israeli airstrikes in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>People in Jerusalem reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AviMayer\/status\/1385004638315876366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hearing a loud explosion<\/a>\u00a0on social media at around 2:00 am local time. Israeli media outlets said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-alert-sirens-sound-near-dimona-blasts-felt-in-central-israel-jerusalem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rocket sirens went off<\/a>\u00a0near Dimona in central Israel, where Israel\u2019s nuclear reactor is.\u00a0A missile landed near the nuclear site, which is located in the Negev desert, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShehabAgency\/status\/1385012279163375617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0from the Hamas-affiliated Shehab Agency showed an explosion and a large flash of light in the sky.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2021\/04\/loud-explosion-heard-central-israel-followed-airstrikes-syria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AL-Monitor<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lovely. I&#8217;m not sure what a Syrian missile hit on a nuclear plant might do, but it wouldn&#8217;t do it any good, I feel sure. And if the plant was put out of commission, the retaliation would be major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While those of us in the United States busy ourselves with either ignoring politics or indulging in it, the outside world is having its own frightfulness &#8211; and I&#8217;m not talking about Covid-19. No, this is all about people slinging old fashioned weapons at each other. From April 22: A \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/28\/the-possibility-of-a-messy-boom\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32815,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32814\/revisions\/32815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}