{"id":2217,"date":"2011-09-05T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2011-09-05T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T22:45:53","slug":"ample_evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/05\/ample_evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ample Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier tonight, The Girlfriend and I were watching <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i> on Spike TV, part of that channel&#8217;s annual Labor Day weekend marathon of all the <i>Star Wars<\/i> movies, both original trilogy (revised editions, naturally) and prequels. We&#8217;re at the moment when Luke and Leia jump on a speeder bike and race off into the forest of Endor in pursuit of an escaping scout trooper. Han Solo has turned to yell something after them when the trooper he&#8217;s been fighting with reaches in from off-screen. An exasperated Han grabs the guy&#8217;s arm and judo-flips him onto the forest floor, where he finally lies still.<\/p>\n<p>Anne: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know landing on your butt could render you unconscious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;Honey, I think we have ample evidence that stormtroopers keep their brains in their butts, don&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get it? Because stormtroopers are so dumb and all. Well, <i>we <\/i>thought it was funny. Maybe you had to be there. Or maybe it&#8217;s just been a really long weekend. Hope you all had a good one, and an easy transition back to work tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier tonight, The Girlfriend and I were watching Return of the Jedi on Spike TV, part of that channel&#8217;s annual Labor Day weekend marathon of all the Star Wars movies, both original trilogy (revised editions, naturally) and prequels. We&#8217;re at the moment when Luke and Leia jump on a speeder bike and race off into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}