{"id":183575,"date":"2025-10-17T16:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183575"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:39:26","slug":"book-review-the-martians-by-david-baron-spins-a-clever-tale-about-a-real-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=183575","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: &#8216;The Martians\u2019 by David Baron spins a clever tale about a real craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Baron&#8217;s book, \u201cThe Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America,\u201d explores a fascinating cultural phenomenon, writes Associated Press breviewer Douglass K. Daniel. In 1907, headlines claimed there was life on Mars, sparking widespread speculation. Baron examines how society, on the brink of scientific breakthroughs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/entertainment\/article\/book-review-the-martians-by-david-baron-21015155.php\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Baron&#8217;s book, \u201cThe Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}