{"id":9000,"date":"2017-04-13T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:22:20","slug":"carrie-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/13\/carrie-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official <em>Star Wars<\/em> Celebration convention is currently underway in Orlando. I&#8217;m sure there wasn&#8217;t a dry eye in the house when they played this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sE99le5FBrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watching this, I fell in love with her all over again, from that first sweet &#8220;Hi.&#8221; Then I had my heart broken yet again with the montage of her reciting the &#8220;Help me, Obi Wan&#8221; speech through the years.<\/p>\n<p>I often feel genuine sorrow when celebrities I admire or whose work is important to me pass on, but I can&#8217;t remember mourning any of them as intensely as I have mourned Carrie Fisher. Not even Leonard Nimoy, and his death <em>hurt<\/em>. But Carrie &#8212; and her alter-ego, of course &#8212; really did feel, well, <em>real<\/em> to me. As real as the girl I had a crush on in middle school, as real as that beloved aunt who had such an outsized spirit you couldn&#8217;t help but want to hang around her.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, my princess. I&#8217;m grateful we still have your movies, and your words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Star Wars Celebration convention is currently underway in Orlando. I&#8217;m sure there wasn&#8217;t a dry eye in the house when they played this: Watching this, I fell in love with her all over again, from that first sweet &#8220;Hi.&#8221; Then I had my heart broken yet again with the montage of her reciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}