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\"\"Olivia Newton John in Xanadu<\/em> (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olivia Newton John in Xanadu (1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,5084],"tags":[366,3543,5361],"class_list":["post-37871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-joe-likes","category-whats-on-tv","tag-366","tag-musical","tag-xanadu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9QP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37677,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/02\/everything-is-better-than-star-wars\/","url_meta":{"origin":37871,"position":0},"title":"Everything is Better than Star Wars","author":"Joe","date":"June 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a scan of an insert from the DVD package of Shock Waves, a movie originally released the same year as Star Wars which also starred Peter Cushing. 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