{"id":1310,"date":"2011-07-05T13:57:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:57:27","slug":"coming-on-july-25th-the-mercury-men-retro-science-fiction-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/05\/coming-on-july-25th-the-mercury-men-retro-science-fiction-serial\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming on July 25th: the Mercury Men retro science fiction serial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;margin-left:50px;text-indent:0px;\">\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"400\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/widget.syfy.com\/singleclip\/singleclip_v1.swf?CXNID=1000004.10035NXC&amp;WID=48e10f5e9dbb50aa&amp;clipID=1266047\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/widget.syfy.com\/singleclip\/singleclip_v1.swf?CXNID=1000004.10035NXC&amp;WID=48e10f5e9dbb50aa&amp;clipID=1266047\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/mercury_men.gif\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><br>\nWell, it&#8217;s been quite a while in production but it looks as though we can finally see the new serial adventures of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/mercurymen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Mercury Men<\/em><\/a> at syfy.com, starting on July 25th.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I wrote about the previews for this production back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2009\/08\/16\/where-the-heck-have-i-been-plus-the-mercury-men-an-online-movie-serial\/\">August of 2009<\/a>. There have been some bits and bobs of news since then, but this is certainly the biggest and best news of all.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/mercury_men.gif\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:9px;margin-bottom:4px;\">It&#8217;s great to know that they&#8217;ve found a home for it, hopefully (but not likely) bringing in great big bags of money and popcorn.  My guess is, the popcorn&#8217;s a lock.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nAnd until the 25th of July you can amuse yourself by browsing the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/blog\/2011\/6\/27\/video-journal-digital-props.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital props<\/a> like, for example, the entirely imaginary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/blog\/2011\/7\/5\/action-figures-preview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">action figures<\/a>, the entirely printable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/blog\/tag\/papercraft-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">papercraft characters<\/a>, and the entirely unnecessary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/blog\/2011\/1\/21\/check-local-listings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vintage newspaper ads<\/a>. What? Did I say unnecessary was <em>bad<\/em>? Some of my best friends are unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Anyhow the syfy link above goes to their home for the episodes; but the production itself has its own site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercuryseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s been quite a while in production but it looks as though we can finally see the new serial adventures of The Mercury Men at syfy.com, starting on July 25th. I wrote about the previews for this production back in August of 2009. There have been some bits and bobs of news since then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}