{"id":315,"date":"2007-08-15T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T01:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/15\/keep-your-eyes-on-the-sky-for-us\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T01:33:30","slug":"keep-your-eyes-on-the-sky-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/expedition\/2007\/08\/15\/keep-your-eyes-on-the-sky-for-us","title":{"rendered":"Keep your eyes on the sky, for us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By this point there are probably not many that are still in the dark about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/redplanet.shtml\">Mars making its closest appearance to Earth<\/a>, well basically ever. After recently receiving many emails regarding this celestial phenomena, the first response from the TWBRs was excitement that&nbsp;our vantage point would be ideal&nbsp;in some remote town while on the road. 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