{"id":7690,"date":"2011-07-01T00:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2018-08-05T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T04:09:30","slug":"image-of-the-month-earth-vs-the-flying-saucers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"Image of the month: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7691\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7691\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-07-01-BLOG-Image-of-the-month-Earth-vs.-the-Flying-Saucers.jpg\" alt=\"11-07-01 BLOG Image of the month - Earth vs. the Flying Saucers\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1040\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-07-01-BLOG-Image-of-the-month-Earth-vs.-the-Flying-Saucers.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-07-01-BLOG-Image-of-the-month-Earth-vs.-the-Flying-Saucers-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-07-01-BLOG-Image-of-the-month-Earth-vs.-the-Flying-Saucers-768x416.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/11-07-01-BLOG-Image-of-the-month-Earth-vs.-the-Flying-Saucers-1024x555.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hugh Mar\u00adlow and Joan Tay\u00adlor in the 1956 sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion film <em>Earth vs. the Fly\u00ading Saucers<\/em>.&nbsp;While it was in a naive attempt to cash in on the new\u00adborn fly\u00ading saucer cult \u2014 a pseu\u00addo\u00adscience which most pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion writ\u00aders looked at with deri\u00adsion \u2014 it nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless had a fair\u00adly good script, decent per\u00adfor\u00admances, and superb spe\u00adcial effects by stop-action ani\u00adma\u00adtor Ray Har\u00adry\u00adhausen.&nbsp;Those affects are the main rea\u00adson the film remains pop\u00adu\u00adlar to this day. The final scene in which the fly\u00ading saucers demol\u00adish Wash\u00ading\u00adton D.C. is a delight.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Mar\u00adlow and Joan Tay\u00adlor in the 1956 sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion film Earth vs. the Fly\u00ading Saucers.&nbsp;While it was in a naive attempt to cash in on the new\u00adborn fly\u00ading saucer cult \u2014 a pseu\u00addo\u00adscience which most pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion writers&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=7690\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,927],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ap-blog-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}