{"id":248,"date":"2005-05-20T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2005-05-20T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T00:22:24","slug":"the_circle_is_now_complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/20\/the_circle_is_now_complete\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circle Is Now Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home from the theater. It&#8217;s late, and I&#8217;ve got a heavy day of work tomorrow, so any kind of detailed review will have to wait. But I will say this much:<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two years ago, I cried at the death of Darth Vader in <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I cried at his birth in <i>Revenge of the Sith<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This movie is everything I hoped for, and probably not at all what most of the people going to see it are expecting. It&#8217;s not heroic summertime derring-do, as all the other <i>Star Wars<\/i> films have been. This one is nothing short of a Greek tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, Uncle George has redeemed himself, at least as far as the prequel trilogy goes. As for the Not-So-Special Editions of the original trilogy, well, that&#8217;s another case entirely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home from the theater. It&#8217;s late, and I&#8217;ve got a heavy day of work tomorrow, so any kind of detailed review will have to wait. But I will say this much: Twenty-two years ago, I cried at the death of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. Tonight, I cried at his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","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\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}