{"id":8001,"date":"2026-10-30T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:49:19","slug":"orson-welles-presented-a-radio-broadcast-of-h-g-wellss-war-of-the-worlds-in-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8001","title":{"rendered":"Orson Welles Presented a Radio Broadcast of H. G. Wells\u2019s War of the Worlds in 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Orson Welles presented a radio broadcast of H. G. Wells\u2019s <i>War of the Worlds<\/i> in 1938<\/strong>. Many people had not tuned in at the beginning, so they believed there was a real Martian invasion. Children can listen to the radio broadcast (55 minutes) at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OzC3Fg_rRJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youtube War of the Worlds<\/a>.\u00a0<i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orson Welles presented a radio broadcast of H. G. Wells\u2019s War of the Worlds in 1938. Many people had not tuned in at the beginning, so they believed there was a real Martian invasion. Children can listen to the radio broadcast (55 minutes) at: Youtube War of the Worlds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4618,3242,3244,5804,3241,3243],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4618","tag-h-g-wells","tag-martian-invasion","tag-october-30","tag-orson-welles","tag-war-of-the-worlds","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23352,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions\/23352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}