“Gentlemen of the world’s press,” don’t forget that this was 1947, “you remember that spaceship that we told you about yesterday, well it turns out, and you’re going to laugh at this, that it was actually a balloon. Flash bulbs were popping, the sound of scribbling was heard and the film cameras turning would drown out the lot of them, the statement would probably have gone like this. The Generals and their assistants trooped into the room and one would stand in front of the others with some sheets of papers in his hand. All of them would have been waiting with baited breath. The looks on their faces were a picture, imagine the scene, you’ve got the photographers at the front with those big bulbous flashes that burned out retinas, behind them the hacks with pads and pencils and behind them film crews standing on step ladders. They’d even been on the phone to their tailors arranging fittings for a new suit so they’d look good on stage as they collected their respective gongs. Some of them had already been writing their acceptance speeches for awards that they were expecting for being the first to tell the world about visitors from outer space. You can imagine the look on the faces of the reporters when they were summoned to the press conference on day two of the Roswell incident.
They didn’t want some nosy journalist going out there and doing their job, the area was to be made sterile. The top brass also ordered a clean up squad to go out into the desert and pick up the rest of the debris that was left. One minute the world is imagining little green men wandering all over the place going bleep bleep and the next they’re being told that it was actually a balloon.
So the day after the world had been told that aliens had crashed in the USA they were then told that it hadn’t been aliens but a weather balloon, what a let down. Something had to be done so the top brass were immediately despatched to the New Mexico desert to close the can of worms opened by Colonel Blanchard. The way communications were back in those days it was probably the first that the Pentagon had heard of it, let alone the President who would have choked on his ham and eggs when he read the papers. remember that you should authenticate your calls, or you will hit the GitHub limit.Majestic 12 – A Concept Album or Secret Organisation?Īfter the, alleged, cat was out of the bag things started to hot up in the old U.S. You can now, easily loop through the data at your own like. It is well explained in GitHub Documentation Hitting that download_url will give you // Custom name (Client side only). "content": "Ly8gQ3VzdG9tIG5hbWUgKENsaWVudCBzaWRlIG9ubHkpLiAoUHV0IHRleHQg\naW4gdGV4dCBoZXJlLikKaGFjay5pbnN0YW5jZS5wcm9kaWd5LnBsYXllci5n\nZXROYW1lID0gKCkgPT4gIlRFWFQgSEVSRSI7Cg=\n",
Will give you everything you can query in that repo, and you will see that's a contents path, so trying that with the path: GET Īnd you can then loop through the return array and get each file, but if you really need to get the raw content of a specific file, then, let's assume, for this example we want /hacks/Character/customName.js GET GitHub API REST Client (known as v3) it's very simple to use GET