{"id":771,"date":"2004-05-09T02:45:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/771"},"modified":"2004-05-09T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T21:45:35","slug":"ghostwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/771","title":{"rendered":"Ghostwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200659\/\">Ghostwatch<\/a> off of eBay a few weeks back and never got around to watching it until tonight.  It was good.  It was really good.  It was really <i>scary<\/i>, and I am a very tough customer in that regard.  The ending completely blew me away.<\/p>\n<p>On Halloween 1992, the BBC presented this program (or is it programme?) as a live, real story and prompted a panic like unto the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk\/\"> broadcast of War of the Worlds<\/a> in 1938.  Three recognized, well-respected journalists took roles in the story.  It would be like if Tom Brokaw, Greta Van Susteren, and I dunno &#8211; Geraldo Rivera, maybe, appeared as themselves in a program that was apparently real.  The simple fact of their involvement lent the program instant validity.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend the program.  Go get yourself a copy ASAP.  eBay and Amazon UK both have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a copy of Ghostwatch off of eBay a few weeks back and never got around to watching it until tonight. It was good. It was really good. It was really scary, and I am a very tough customer in that regard. The ending completely blew me away. On Halloween 1992, the BBC presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}