{"id":1633,"date":"2012-11-07T23:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2012-11-07T23:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:49:55","slug":"john-keels-ufo-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"John Keel’s UFO Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one point, John planned to write a UFO dictionary, and filled a small box with definitions on index cards.\u00a0 He wrote 188 of them, though many just have words without definitions.\u00a0 The scope is characteristic: they include not only terms used by ufologists, but words from physics, occultism, psychiatry, medicine, contactee lore, and gypsy culture. Even some of the vocabulary used by Richard Shaver and Barbara O’Brien finds a place.\u00a0 Here’s a sampling:<\/p>\n

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At one point, John planned to write a UFO dictionary, and filled a small box with definitions on index cards.\u00a0 He wrote 188 of them, though many just have words without definitions.\u00a0 The scope is characteristic: they include not only terms used by ufologists, but words from physics, occultism, psychiatry, medicine, contactee lore, and gypsy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnkeel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}