{"id":7927,"date":"2011-07-19T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:30:09","slug":"beware-the-glob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/07\/beware-the-glob\/","title":{"rendered":"BEWARE THE GLOB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/out-of-this-world\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"out-of-this-world\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/out-of-this-world.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>In 1958 Jack Harris and Irvine Millgate introduced the world to a soon-to-be iconic Steve McQueen and a squishy alien known as \u201cThe Blob.\u201dThis gooey fiend oozed its way across silver screens scaring the pants off a generation of teens in theaters and drive-ins nationwide, but while this B-movie beast has become an icon in its own right, there are few who realize that the Blob\u2019s creator was inspired by a real life run-in with a gelatinous, allegedly extraterrestrial life-form that was encountered by four Philadelphia police officers in the autumn of 1950.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bloblk4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7934\" title=\"bloblk4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bloblk4-300x155.jpg?resize=300%2C155\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bloblk4.jpg?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bloblk4.jpg?w=458&amp;ssl=1 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>READ MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousuniverse.org\/2011\/07\/beware-the-glob\/\" target=\"_\">Beware the Glob!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1958 Jack Harris and Irvine Millgate introduced the world to a soon-to-be iconic Steve McQueen and a squishy alien known as \u201cThe Blob.\u201dThis gooey fiend oozed its way across silver screens scaring the pants off a generation of teens in theaters and drive-ins nationwide, but while this B-movie beast has become an icon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[65,91,1121,696,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-7927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alien","9":"tag-blob","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-purple-glob","12":"tag-ufo"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blob_111.jpg?fit=400%2C240&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10100,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/10100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}