{"id":100898,"date":"2020-01-15T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/conspiracists-say-lasers-used-to-start-bushfires-to-make-way-for-a-new-train-network"},"modified":"2020-01-15T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:30:26","slug":"conspiracists-say-lasers-used-to-start-bushfires-to-make-way-for-a-new-train-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/conspiracists-say-lasers-used-to-start-bushfires-to-make-way-for-a-new-train-network","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracists say lasers used to start bushfires to make way for a new train network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/conspiracists-say-lasers-used-to-start-bushfires-to-make-way-for-a-new-train-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Australians appear to believe lasers and exploding smart meters are being used to start our bushfires to make way for a new train network.<\/p>\n<p>A Storyful investigation with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\">news.com.au<\/a> has found the conspiracy theory has spread far and wide on social media \u2014 with \u201cdirected-energy weapons\u201d (DEWs) posts being shared tens of thousands of times in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Those who believe the theory say the bushfires in this unprecedented season are being started using weapons which harness the focused power of technology such as lasers or microwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Australians appear to believe lasers and exploding smart meters are being used to start our bushfires to make way for a new train network. A Storyful investigation with news.com.au has found the conspiracy theory has spread far and wide on social media \u2014 with \u201cdirected-energy weapons\u201d (DEWs) posts being shared tens of thousands [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}