{"id":4342,"date":"2010-01-16T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2010-01-16T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:59:05","slug":"invaders-from-mars-atomic-ray-guns-mysterious-caves-and-bad-guys-wearing-fedora-hats-must-be-republic-serial-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4342","title":{"rendered":"Invaders From Mars, Atomic Ray Guns, Mysterious Caves and Bad Guys Wearing Fedora Hats&#8230;Must Be Republic Serial Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oboy&#8230;my copy of &#8220;Flying Diskman From Mars&#8221; came in the mail yesterday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/bruce_garrett\/photos\/FlyingDisc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My collection of Republic Serials I Used To Raptly Watch On Saturday Mornings is almost complete now.<\/p>\n<p>To this day the techno-nerd in me marvels at the special effects magic of the legendary brothers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lydecker_brothers\">Howard and Theodore Lydecker<\/a>. \u00a0 And perhaps the reason I still like working in black &amp; white photography is so many of my Saturday morning adventures were in black and white. \u00a0 No&#8230;I am not having my second childhood. \u00a0 Ask anyone who knows me. \u00a0 I&#8217;m not finished with the first one yet. \u00a0 Tico you were wrong&#8230;my heritage isn&#8217;t Baseball, Mom, Apple Pie and Mickey Mouse. \u00a0 \u00a0 It&#8217;s Invaders From Mars, Atomic Ray Guns, Mysterious Caves and Bad Guys Wearing Fedora Hats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/bruce_garrett\/photos\/radar_card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oboy&#8230;my copy of &#8220;Flying Diskman From Mars&#8221; came in the mail yesterday! My collection of Republic Serials I Used To Raptly Watch On Saturday Mornings is almost complete now. To this day the techno-nerd in me marvels at the special effects magic of the legendary brothers Howard and Theodore Lydecker. \u00a0 And perhaps the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-kidhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}