{"id":81,"date":"2016-01-11T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reelshift.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:23:18","slug":"the-man-who-fell-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Fell to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie passed away today at the age of 69 after a prolonged battle with cancer. I don&#8217;t need to tell you who David Bowie is. You all know him\u00a0and love him and I&#8217;m not going to try to sum up his life in this meager little blog post. What you may not know is that his movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074851\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/em>(1976)<\/a> is based on a 1963 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Fell_to_Earth_(novel)\" target=\"_blank\">novel<\/a> of the same name by Walter Tevis. Look forward to us discussing this on an upcoming podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie passed away today at the age of 69 after a prolonged battle with cancer. I don&#8217;t need to tell you who David Bowie is. You all know him\u00a0and love him and I&#8217;m not going to try to sum up his life in this meager little blog post. What you may not know is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reelshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}