{"id":150,"date":"2004-08-09T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=150"},"modified":"2009-09-23T03:49:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T08:49:18","slug":"where_in_the_wo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/where_in_the_wo\/","title":{"rendered":"Where in the World is Hira Manek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/news\/food-03d.html\" target=\"_blank\">remember the story of Hira Ratan Manek<\/a> floating around the web over a year ago.  If not, Hira is the 64 year old Indian engineer that had supposedly astounded NASA scientists when they verified that Manek spent 130 days surviving only on water.<\/p>\n\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"hira-ratan-manek.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/hira-ratan-manek.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>According to that earlier article his wife, Vimla, said: &#8220;Every evening he looks at the sun for one hour without batting an eyelid. It is his main food. Occasionally he takes coffee, tea or some other liquid.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Since then Mr. Manek was supposed to have come over to the U.S. to be studied by NASA more carefully.  <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mid-day.com\/news\/world\/2003\/july\/57637.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Not so said NASA spokesperson Delores Beasely in June<\/a>. &#8220;We have no record of him being involved with us. We have checked with all offices doing related research at centers such as Johnson, Marshall and Ames.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Okay, am I the only one that smells a conspiracy afoot?  A guy that can survive for 130 days without food and was supposedly being studied by a federal agency is now missing?  The word &#8220;super-soldier&#8221; comes to mind.  But seriously&#8230;does anyone know where Manek might be?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you probably remember the story of Hira Ratan Manek floating around the web over a year ago. If not, Hira is the 64 year old Indian engineer that had supposedly astounded NASA scientists when they verified that Manek &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/where_in_the_wo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}