{"id":76,"date":"2008-07-06T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:02:55","slug":"the-merchants-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/articles\/the-merchants-of-venus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merchants of&nbsp;Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"section\"><span class=\"dc\"><strong>X<\/strong><\/span> Minus One was an early radio show that focused on Science Fiction stories. They purchased stories from authors who appeared in the pages of <em>Galaxy Magazine<\/em> and adapted them for the radio.<\/p>\n<p>In the story, colonists are needed for the Venus Project to leave the overcrowded Earth to live on Venus. This leaves the Venus Project Personnel Director with a dilemma: Creative and resourceful people are needed for the colonization effort, <em>but<\/em>, anyone who is creative or resourceful does perfectly fine making a life for themselves on Earth \u2014 so they have no reason or desire to travel to Venus to make a living.<\/p>\n<p>This episode originally aired on July 18, 1957.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_884\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-76-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/merchantsofvenus.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/merchantsofvenus.mp3\">https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/merchantsofvenus.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/merchantsofvenus.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?powerpress_pinw=76-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/merchantsofvenus.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"merchantsofvenus.mp3\">Download<\/a> (5.0MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;The Merchants of Venus&rdquo; by A.H. Phelps, Jr. originally appeared in the March 1954 issue of <em>Galaxy Magazine<\/em>. The story answers the question: how <em>do<\/em> you sell a planet to potential pioneers? <em class=\"nobr\">&mdash; ed, N.E. Lilly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[120,119,286],"media":[301],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}