{"id":46,"date":"2005-06-30T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T14:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:40:04","slug":"bunch-of-neanderthals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Bunch of Neanderthals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>War of the Worlds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any time I offer an opinion on the movie I state that I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be good, I&#8217;ll see it; but I&#8217;m also sure it won&#8217;t be like the original.<\/p>\n<p>The number of confused or blank looks I get is disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to let you Neanderthals know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>War of the Worlds<\/em> was a movie released in 1953, written by Barr\u00e9 Lyndon.<\/p>\n<p><em>War of the Worlds<\/em> was also broadcast live on American radio on October 30, 1938. \u00a0It was done with little announcement and many people thought the radio play, starring Orson Wells, was not a hoax (well, a radio play, to be precise). \u00a0It caused quite a bit of a stir, if not hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>The radio play was a slight adaptation of the book of the same name first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. \u00a0Listen up! \u00a0H.G. Wells. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1898<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>The 2005 movie, incidentally, is a thoroughly enjoyable Hollywood adaptation, in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War of the Worlds Any time I offer an opinion on the movie I state that I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be good, I&#8217;ll see it; but I&#8217;m also sure it won&#8217;t be like the original. The number of confused or blank looks I get is disturbing. I&#8217;m here to let you Neanderthals know&#8230; War of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default-ramblings","tag-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grind.rpol.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}