{"id":210,"date":"2003-03-26T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=210"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:54:42","slug":"beginning-of-the-end-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--91412305-->Now that the major dvd purchases were made yesterday, I need to track down a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00008975H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Beginning of the End<\/b><\/a> (also released yesterday). It&#8217;s Bert I. Gordon&#8217;s fantastic 1957 movie about giant, radioactive locusts that attack a few small towns and head to Chicago for some major mayhem. It&#8217;s stars Peter Graves and Peggie Castle and has only been available so far in the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/B000056VOP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" target=\"_blank&quot;\"><b>Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version<\/b><\/a>. The great thing about this movie is that they try so hard to make it good. The special effects are so damn cheesey though. You can&#8217;t beat grasshoppers crawling over a picture of the Chicago skyline. It&#8217;s pure cinema gold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the major dvd purchases were made yesterday, I need to track down a copy of Beginning of the End (also released yesterday). It&#8217;s Bert I. Gordon&#8217;s fantastic 1957 movie about giant, radioactive locusts that attack a few small towns and head to Chicago for some major mayhem. It&#8217;s stars Peter Graves and Peggie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-dvd","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10243,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/10243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}