{"id":36717,"date":"2021-10-30T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36717"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T23:44:32","slug":"36717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/10\/30\/36717\/","title":{"rendered":"The Martians are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/20\/gaslight\/mystery_matinee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35546\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35546\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/20\/gaslight\/mystery_matinee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?fit=640%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,148\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystery_Matinee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?fit=640%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35546\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?resize=640%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mystery Matinee\" width=\"640\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?resize=300%2C69&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Halloween 2010\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/5133408351\/in\/album-72157608562379567\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/4054\/5133408351_cb18ca6eab_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Halloween 2010\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>As a treat for Halloween, here is a presentation of Orson Welles&#8217; notorious radio drama originally broadcast on October 30, 1938. Click on the arrow below to play the program.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/MercuryTheatreOnTheAir381030WarOfTheWorlds\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Halloween!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a treat for Halloween, here is a presentation of Orson Welles&#8217; notorious radio drama originally broadcast on October 30, 1938. Click on the arrow below to play the program. \ufeff Happy Halloween! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,176,5033],"tags":[682,5188,4801,5189,955,5190],"class_list":["post-36717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-holiday","category-mystery-matinee","tag-682","tag-archive","tag-martian","tag-orson-welles","tag-radio","tag-war-of-the-worlds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-36717","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10786,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/12\/07\/endoras-earrings\/","url_meta":{"origin":36717,"position":0},"title":"Endora&#8217;s Earrings","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"December 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 It was Agnes Moorehead's birthday yesterday. 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