{"id":25965,"date":"2015-04-18T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=25965"},"modified":"2017-01-06T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T09:05:07","slug":"mooney-richard-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mooney-richard-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooney, Richard E. (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richard E.<\/strong><strong> M<\/strong><strong>ooney <\/strong>was one of a number of authors who followed in the footsteps of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/daniken-erich-von\/\">Erich von D\u00e4niken <\/a>with a couple <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ancient-astronauts-n\/\">&#8216;ancient astronaut&#8217; <\/a>books. His first, <em>Colony: Earth<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">0842<\/a>]<\/sup>, has a chapter devoted to Atlantis in which he gives qualified support to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/minoan-hypothesis\/\">Minoan Hypothesis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his sequel, <em>Gods of Air and Darkness<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">1078<\/a>]<\/sup>, he again touches on the subject of Atlantis, although in a slightly more muted fashion. Nevertheless, he refers to the Greek legends of Atlantis and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hyperboreans\/\">Hyperborea <\/a>as being &#8220;both obviously based on fact.&#8221; (p.183)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard E. Mooney was one of a number of authors who followed in the footsteps of Erich von D\u00e4niken with a couple &#8216;ancient astronaut&#8217; books. His first, Colony: Earth[0842], has a chapter devoted to Atlantis in which he gives qualified support to the Minoan Hypothesis. In his sequel, Gods of Air and Darkness[1078], he again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,2259,215,2096,157,3757],"class_list":["post-25965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancient-astronauts","tag-atlantis","tag-erich-von-daniken","tag-hyperborea","tag-minoan-hypothesis","tag-richard-e-mooney"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}