{"id":240,"date":"2005-05-14T23:42:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2005-05-14T23:42:41","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T23:42:41","slug":"its_like_were_living_in_the_fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/14\/its_like_were_living_in_the_fu\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Like We’re Living in the Future!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure it won’t surprise anyone to know that I’ve already got my tickets for Revenge of the Sith<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\"Tickets<\/p>\n

I would like you to note that even though I’ll be seeing the movie on opening day, I’m not attending the very first midnight screening, or a wee-hours-of-the-morning screening, or even a matinee. I’m going to an evening show like a civilized human being. It’s not that I’ve gotten too old to do the midnight shows; I just choose not to in this instance. Because I’m not that<\/i> much of a fanboy. I can be patient, just like any other grown-up who has a real life and who doesn’t think that a most-likely inferior prequel to a movie he saw almost thirty years ago is some kind of highlight of the whole frakkin’ year.<\/p>\n

Besides, all the midnight shows were already sold out.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I would like to briefly note how amazing it is to me that you can order movie tickets a week in advance over the Internet, then walk into the lobby of your local Megaplex<\/a>, stick a credit card into a machine, and watch the machine automatically print out your tickets for you without you having to do another thing. I remember when I was working at a theater a little over a decade ago and we thought same-day, in-person advance ticket sales were pretty cutting edge. This, however… this is real “twenty minutes into the future” kind of stuff, kids.<\/p>\n

Now, if only somebody would get to work on those flying cars. Or even just levitating cars, like Luke Skywalker’s landspeeder. I could really get into driving a landspeeder. Or better yet, one of those snazzy speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi<\/i>. Yeah, there we go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure it won’t surprise anyone to know that I’ve already got my tickets for Revenge of the Sith: I would like you to note that even though I’ll be seeing the movie on opening day, I’m not attending the very first midnight screening, or a wee-hours-of-the-morning screening, or even a matinee. I’m going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}