{"id":8504,"date":"2016-08-16T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:47:54","slug":"just-for-fun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/16\/just-for-fun-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for Fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago&#8230; before the dark times&#8230; before the Special Editions&#8230; my lovely lady Anne and I attended an all-night marathon screening of the original <em>Star Wars<\/em> trilogy. I made it through the first two films without too much difficulty, but I found myself fading by the time <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em> got under way. Not surprising, as it must&#8217;ve been going on 4 AM by that time, and even my awesome levels of nerdish enthusiasm weren&#8217;t enough to keep me going around the clock. I very clearly remember seeing the rebel star fleet, led by Lando Calrissian aboard the <em>Millennium Falcon<\/em>, going to lightspeed&#8230; and then opening my eyes again just as the fleet <em>came out<\/em> <em>of lightspeed<\/em>. I&#8217;d dropped off and missed all of the mucking about with the Ewoks on Endor, probably a half-hour or so of the film. I laughed for a long time about that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(My affection and\/or tolerance for the Ewoks has waxed and waned over the years, and at the time I was in a low point toward them. These days, I&#8217;m not quite so down on them as I was then; besides, I&#8217;d also missed the speeder bikes during my nap, and that could never be anything but a shame.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I just ran across a video clip that edits the film&#8217;s climatic space battle together pretty much exactly how I remember it from that screening. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xPZigWFyK2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago&#8230; before the dark times&#8230; before the Special Editions&#8230; my lovely lady Anne and I attended an all-night marathon screening of the original Star Wars trilogy. I made it through the first two films without too much difficulty, but I found myself fading by the time Return of the Jedi got under way. [&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-8504","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\/8504","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=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}