{"id":5918,"date":"2023-02-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T02:24:30","slug":"northwestern-spy-balloon-spotted-over-uchicago-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/09\/northwestern-spy-balloon-spotted-over-uchicago-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern Spy Balloon Spotted over UChicago Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HYDE PARK \u2014 A high-altitude weather balloon with surveillance equipment aboard was spotted over UChicago campus, University officials announced Monday. The balloon, which blew over campus in a southerly direction, was thought to be launched by bad actors from Northwestern University, said UChicago Associate Vice President for Safety &amp; Security Eric M. Heath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University officials were uncertain about Northwestern\u2019s motivations for launching the balloon, though the Safety and Security office speculated that the Evanston school wanted \u201cto observe the movement of our troops \u2014 I mean, UCPD corner officers.\u201d College Dean John Boyer is reportedly hard at work deciphering the bright pink spray paint on the side, which reads: \u201cLULZ WHERES UR ENGINEERING SKL U JUST GOT PRANKT BRO&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heath announced that in response, the University expects to launch its own weather balloon \u201cpurely for scientific purposes.\u201d The zeppelin-sized balloon is expected to be big enough to eclipse not only Northwestern\u2019s project but also \u201cfinally show those bastards at Harvard who\u2019s boss.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Dean John Boyer is reportedly hard at work deciphering the bright pink spray paint on the side, which reads: \u201cLULZ WHERES UR ENGINEERING SKL U JUST GOT PRANKT BRO&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}