{"id":2817,"date":"2023-06-16T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:05:48","slug":"is-there-life-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Is There Life On Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1972 David Bowie released his fifth studio album, <em>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/em>. The concept album introduced us to  Bowie&#8217;s alter ego,\u00a0Ziggy Stardust, a fictional\u00a0rock star who is sent to Earth as a saviour to bring a message of hope to humanity before an impending\u00a0apocalypse. The album peaked at number 5 in the UK and remains on that chart for two years, bolstered by Bowie&#8217;s performance of &#8220;Starman&#8221; on &#8220;Top of the Pops&#8221; in July 1972. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Bowie - Starman (Top Of The Pops, 1972)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oOKWF3IHu0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1972 David Bowie released his fifth studio album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The concept album introduced us to Bowie&#8217;s alter ego,\u00a0Ziggy Stardust, a fictional\u00a0rock star who is sent to Earth as a saviour to bring a message of hope to humanity before an impending\u00a0apocalypse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-david-bowie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}