{"id":91507,"date":"2023-06-04T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91507"},"modified":"2023-06-04T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T18:02:05","slug":"thrillers-and-chillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/06\/04\/thrillers-and-chillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrillers and Chillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally saw <strong><em>The Mousetrap<\/em><\/strong> after 70 long years (obviously the play\u2019s, not mine).&nbsp; The <strong>Agatha Christie <\/strong>thriller is a bit less thrilling than I anticipated, but it is presented lovingly.&nbsp; The cast was marvelous, if not more contemporary than Christie might have envisioned.&nbsp; I solved the mystery straight away, but must confess a few of the twists took me by surprise.&nbsp; Not surprising is that it\u2019s still selling out, even after seven decades!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I looked forward to <strong><em>2:22<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> A Ghost Story<\/em><\/strong>, which I\u2019d heard good things about.&nbsp; A young couple buys and is modernizing an old house.&nbsp; Is it haunted?&nbsp; They spend the night with another couple trying to solve the mystery.&nbsp; The ending really surprised me, so that\u2019s a good thing.&nbsp; It\u2019s provocative enough to make you replay everything that transpired.&nbsp; In fact, I might go back to unravel it some more.&nbsp; Another solid cast.&nbsp; The most recent addition is <strong>Sophia Bush <\/strong>\u2013 from <strong><em>One Tree Hill<\/em><\/strong>, but better known to my readers as a one-time Mrs. <strong>Chad Michael Murray<\/strong>.&nbsp; While not a natural theatrical animal, she turns in a very capable portrayal that will only get better with time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally saw The Mousetrap after 70 long years (obviously the play\u2019s, not mine).&nbsp; The Agatha Christie thriller is a bit less thrilling than I anticipated, but it is presented lovingly.&nbsp; The cast was marvelous, if not more contemporary than Christie might have envisioned.&nbsp; I solved the mystery straight away, but must confess a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91508,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507\/revisions\/91508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}