{"id":7893,"date":"2015-08-12T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2015-08-12T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:30:44","slug":"thunderbirds-are-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/thunderbirds-are-50\/","title":{"rendered":"thunderbirds are 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s the 50th Anniversary year for the 1960s British SF show <i>Thunderbirds are Go!<\/i> and there are all sorts of celebratory events &#8211; the Kickstarter I talked about last month (which succeeded, by the way, with flying colours), specials, all sorts of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>There are also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fanderson.org.uk\/gerryandersonnews\/2015\/08\/new-thunderbirds-books\/\">three new tie-in books which look pretty fun<\/a>, like <i>Parker&#8217;s Cars<\/i>, and <i>Brains Explains Quantum Mechanics<\/i> (&#8220;Astrophysics is easy!&#8221;), and the one I kinda want:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-08\/Lady-penelopes-cocktail-book.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because they&#8217;ve posted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fanderson.org.uk\/gerryandersonnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tracy-island-iced-tea.jpg\">a sample page<\/a> showing the recipe for a Tracy Island Iced Tea, and I mean to tell you, they clearly <em>do not skimp on the alcohol on Tracy Island<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is one stiff bunch of marionettes down International Rescue way. No wonder Lady P always seems so <em>calm<\/em>. Splendid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s the 50th Anniversary year for the 1960s British SF show Thunderbirds are Go! and there are all sorts of celebratory events &#8211; the Kickstarter I talked about last month (which succeeded, by the way, with flying colours), specials, all sorts of stuff. There are also three new tie-in books which look pretty fun, [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}