{"id":266,"date":"2003-10-30T19:23:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T19:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=266"},"modified":"2003-10-30T19:23:35","modified_gmt":"2003-10-30T19:23:35","slug":"live_from_grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Live from Grovers Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank those of you who sent me Friendster and Tribe invitations.  I&#8217;ll post my thoughts on them in a few days.<br \/>\nI listened to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthstation1.com\/wotw.html\">original radio broadcast of War of the Worlds<\/a> while at work today.  It&#8217;s still a great piece of storytelling, even though the science is a bit questionable (rockets travel from Mars to Earth in minutes!).  I can&#8217;t imagine that a stunt like this would work in today&#8217;s age of media sophistication, but I envy the fun that Welles and his crew must have had in putting this together.  And the 1950s film version is great too.  Speaking of which, what are some suggestions for a Halloween movie marathon.  I have to admit that I have a special fondness for the film <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0134847\/\">Pitch Black<\/a>.  Despite having Vin Diesel in the cast, it&#8217;s still a scary and even somewhat original story.  Others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to thank those of you who sent me Friendster and Tribe invitations. I&#8217;ll post my thoughts on them in a few days. I listened to the original radio broadcast of War of the Worlds while at work today. It&#8217;s still a great piece of storytelling, even though the science is a bit questionable <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=266' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-4i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}