{"id":429,"date":"2007-01-08T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/08\/banana-in-the-texas-sky\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:39:32","slug":"banana-in-the-texas-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/banana-in-the-texas-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"banana in the texas sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously. This is for real.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/banana-over-texas.jpg?resize=500%2C344&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"image428\" alt=\"Banana over Texas\" height=\"344\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of engineers, designers, artists, arts spaces and some major art-funding bodies (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacouncil.ca\/\">the Canada Council for the Arts<\/a>) are planning to float a banana over the skies of Texas, which its producers describe as &#8216;an art intervention&#8217;. In its concept statement, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com\/en.html\">&#8216;Geostationary Banana Over Texas&#8217;<\/a> team discuss cowboys, paradoxes, dreams and Andy Warhol!<\/p>\n<p>Expected launch date is August 2008. Let&#8217;s all hope for the best of this!<\/p>\n<p>(It also reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/science\/5a4d4c3ee4d05010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\">this Popular Science article from June 2005<\/a> about the possibility of the banana going extinct! LoL!!)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, seriously. This is for real. A group of engineers, designers, artists, arts spaces and some major art-funding bodies (including the Canada Council for the Arts) are planning to float a banana over the skies of Texas, which its producers describe as &#8216;an art intervention&#8217;. In its concept statement, the &#8216;Geostationary Banana Over Texas&#8217; team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[415,59],"series":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-banana","tag-space"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/banana-over-texas.jpg?fit=533%2C367&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-6V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}