{"id":19417,"date":"2020-12-25T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19417"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:56:01","slug":"christmas-storytime-orson-welles-gremlin-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19417","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Storytime: Orson Welles&#8217; &#8220;Gremlin Troubles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy one of the great Orson Welles&#8217; contributions to the war effort: a story about gremlins, the supernatural critters that attacked World War II planes, more funny than horrific, and with a Christmas theme:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dja6OSWeFXg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was from his <i>Ceiling Unlimited<\/i> radio show, sponsored by Lockheed-Vega to  dramatize aviation&#8217;s contributions to the war effort. Welles wrote, directed and starred in the first 13 episodes before others took over for him. <\/p>\n<p>Cast credits start in at 13:10. See if you can guess who played the Irish lass before you get to them\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy one of the great Orson Welles&#8217; contributions to the war effort: a story about gremlins, the supernatural critters that attacked World War II planes, more funny than horrific, and with a Christmas theme: This was from his Ceiling Unlimited radio show, sponsored by Lockheed-Vega to dramatize aviation&#8217;s contributions to the war effort. Welles wrote,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19417\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Storytime: Orson Welles&#8217; &#8220;Gremlin Troubles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2471,133,2470,1257,429,1974,837],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-aircraft","tag-christmas","tag-gremlins","tag-orson-welles","tag-radio","tag-video","tag-world-war-ii","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19418,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}