{"id":2515,"date":"2023-12-22T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2023-12-22T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T18:26:33","slug":"unsolved-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unsolved-mysteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolved Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-2048x1394.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid-397x270.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_starry_sky_above_Death_Valley_and_Orionid.jpg\">Image source<\/a> shared under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons 3.0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is part of a \u201cshared storytelling event\u201d over at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/\">I Saw Lightning Fall\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/isawlightningfall.blogspot.com\/2023\/12\/advent-ghosts-2023-stories.html\">Advents Ghosts 2023<\/a>. We were tasked to write a scary story of exactly 100 words in length. This came to me after watching an episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor travelled to the edge of the Universe. I don&#8217;t think this story is actually scary though the unknown can sure be known to unsettle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Unsolved Mysteries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What celestial phenomenon called the Magi to Bethlehem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s imagine, as the story has been told, a star. One of 4,000 visible in a clear night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posit each of those stars has nine planets, 36,000 potential Earths, all these planets forming and evolving in their own time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Has the Christmas story happened countless times across the vast Universe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Would Jesus have been sent to save our extra-terrestrial neighbors from their sin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps somewhere the apple was never eaten, and our Heavenly counterparts observe our lives like reality tv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are we alone and special?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there comfort in the mystery?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image source shared under Creative Commons 3.0 The following is part of a \u201cshared storytelling event\u201d over at\u00a0I Saw Lightning Fall\u00a0,\u00a0Advents Ghosts 2023. We were tasked to write a scary story of exactly 100 words in length. This came to me after watching an episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor travelled to the edge of the Universe. I don&#8217;t think this story is actually scary though the unknown can sure be known to unsettle. Unsolved Mysteries What celestial phenomenon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unsolved-mysteries\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","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":[35],"tags":[36,10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-Ez","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}