{"id":8219,"date":"2016-04-01T18:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T00:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2016-04-01T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T00:18:35","slug":"i-must-leave-this-planet-or-lose-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/i-must-leave-this-planet-or-lose-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Must Leave This Planet or Lose My Mind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of the usual music-type video, I thought I&#8217;d offer a different sort of distraction for this Friday evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of <em>Star Wars<\/em> parody videos over the years. I mean, <em>a lot<\/em>. There are nearly as many of those silly things out there on the InterWebs as there are cat videos. But every once in a while, one comes along that is truly sublime in its creativity, its unique take on the source material, and yes, its side-splitting, coffee-spewing, tear-inducing hilariousness. My buddy Robert sent me one such gem today, which re-imagines several key scenes from <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> as a Spanish-language <em>telenovela<\/em>, and the results are&#8230; well, just take a look:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RfD0uGcGtG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, man. I&#8217;ve watched this half a dozen times this afternoon, and I&#8217;m still laughing. But you know&#8230; seeing Our Heroes as, ahem, <em>young and horny <\/em>only highlights how deeply unhappy I am with what becomes of them in <em>The Force Awakens<\/em>. One of these weekends, I&#8217;ve got to clear my calendar and write up exactly what I thought of that movie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it probably won&#8217;t be <em>this<\/em> weekend. I may post some more in the next 48 hours, but I&#8217;ve got other subjects in the chute ahead of my TFA review. In the meantime, have a good one, kids. Hope you have some nice spring weather to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of the usual music-type video, I thought I&#8217;d offer a different sort of distraction for this Friday evening&#8230; I&#8217;ve seen a lot of Star Wars parody videos over the years. I mean, a lot. There are nearly as many of those silly things out there on the InterWebs as there are cat videos. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","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=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}