{"id":18921,"date":"2017-05-20T11:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T18:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T18:52:27","slug":"things-to-come-as-portrayed-on-the-silver-screen-during-the-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2017\/05\/20\/things-to-come-as-portrayed-on-the-silver-screen-during-the-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Things to Come&#8221; as Portrayed on the Silver Screen during the Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/things2come.jpg\" alt=\"Things to Come movie poster\" width=\"164\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18924\" \/>During the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, H. G. Wells wrote his science fiction novel called the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come\">The Shape of Things to Come<\/a>&#8221; that speculated on future events until the year 2106. His novel echoes his long-held view of a <a href=\"http:\/\/modernhistoryproject.org\/mhp?Article=FinalWarning&#038;C=5.1\">one world, socialist state<\/a> that would rise up out of the ashes of endless war to save humanity. Three years later, London Film Productions would adapt Wells&#8217; novel into a movie called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028358\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt\">Things to Come<\/a>.&#8221; As an eerie coincidence, Wells&#8217; prediction of the start of a Second World War in 1940 was off by only a few months. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Things to Come<br \/>\n1h 40min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War | 14 September 1936 (UK)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028358\/\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028358\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced by Alexander Korda<br \/>\nDirector: William Cameron Menzies<br \/>\nStars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson <\/p>\n<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9miSJvuLJ9c[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, H. G. Wells wrote his science fiction novel called the &#8220;The Shape of Things to Come&#8221; that speculated on future events until the year 2106. His novel echoes his long-held view &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2017\/05\/20\/things-to-come-as-portrayed-on-the-silver-screen-during-the-depression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[15,12,14],"tags":[7381,2044,7382,7383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18940,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions\/18940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}