{"id":9742,"date":"2012-05-27T23:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:27:31","slug":"mysterious-globs-fall-on-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2012\/05\/mysterious-globs-fall-on-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"MYSTERIOUS GLOBS FALL ON MINNESOTA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/monsters\/unclassified\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1691\" title=\"unclassified\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unclassified.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Minnesota&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/event\/image\/id\/60063\/headline\/Strange%20substance%20found%20on%20patio%20near%20Dent%20\/\" target=\"_\">Grand Forks Herald<\/a> has reported that an Otter Tail County couple woke up Saturday to find strange jelly-like blobs on their patio at their home near Dent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Debra Eull claimed that she and her husband found the clear blobs following a rain storm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c(My husband) happened to look out and saw what looked like hail. It wasn&#8217;t very many of them.They\u2019re little jelly blobs. I have to assume they came out of the sky.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeff Bodwin, a Minnesota State University Moorhead chemistry professor, feels that the blobs have a more terrestrial explanation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would say looking at it and feeling it, it probably is just a water retention gel of some sort. A silicone polymer\u2026 maybe. Or some other type of polymer that just absorbs and traps a lot of water.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2012\/05\/mysterious-globs-fall-on-minnesota\/micro1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9745\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9745\" title=\"micro1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/purple_glob_morphy.jpg?resize=300%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>There is a rich tradition of bizarre, blob-like &#8220;things&#8221; falling from the sky, one of the most famous being the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousuniverse.org\/2011\/07\/beware-the-glob\/\" target=\"_\">PURPLE GLOB<\/a>&#8221; that fell on Philadelphia in 1950.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Grand Forks Herald has reported that an Otter Tail County couple woke up Saturday to find strange jelly-like blobs on their patio at their home near Dent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[65,91,1121,696,695],"class_list":{"0":"post-9742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alien","9":"tag-blob","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-purple-glob","12":"tag-star-jelly"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/sky-blobs-300x2251.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}