{"id":996,"date":"2007-05-25T16:11:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T16:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2007-05-25T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T16:11:14","slug":"a_sampling_from_around_the_gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/25\/a_sampling_from_around_the_gal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sampling From Around the Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is, not surprisingly, sagging under the weight of personal 30th anniversary remembrances today, so I thought I&#8217;d offer a few links to some &#8220;official&#8221; coverage:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The big <i>Star Wars Celebration IV<\/i> convention is going on in Los Angeles as I type. The con has an <a href=\"http:\/\/starwarsblog.wordpress.com\/\">official blog<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starwarsblog\/\">photo stream<\/a>. I am intrigued with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/starwarsblog\/513829943\/\">Slave Leia belly-dancing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>ABC News has a then-and-now <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/popup?id=3196756\">photo gallery<\/a> with text to explain whatever happened to the various Star Warriors.<\/li>\n<li>CNN.com offers up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/05\/23\/star.wars.30\/index.html\">standard overview<\/a> and covers much of the same ground I already did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/05\/a_long_time_ago.html\">my big entry<\/a> this morning. Don&#8217;t just take my word for it, kids!<\/li>\n<li>BBC News has a plethora of related pieces, including <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6679425.stm\">30 pieces of trivia<\/a> that should all be common knowledge to true fanboy types, an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6681321.stm\">interview<\/a> with Tony Daniels (a.k.a. C-3PO, human-cyborg relations), and a vintage (and very British) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6687459.stm\">review<\/a> that called the film &#8220;that rare commodity &#8211; an utterly delightful romp and you&#8217;ll be sorry if you miss it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, it&#8217;s not exactly anniversary-related, but Star Wars.com has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/episode-iv\/bts\/article\/majik.html\">vintage commercial<\/a> for some convenience store that has just gotten in a line of SW-themed cups. The presenter or whatever you call him isn&#8217;t exactly a fountain of charisma, but I like this piece because it demonstrates what I was getting at earlier when I was talking about the organic growth of the merchandising and the very genuine enthusiasm that even extremely average guys felt for a movie that has now, unfortunately, come to be seen as some kind of nerdy cult thing.<br \/>\nAnd for the record, I have a complete set of those cups. As if you couldn&#8217;t have guessed that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back in a bit with more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogosphere is, not surprisingly, sagging under the weight of personal 30th anniversary remembrances today, so I thought I&#8217;d offer a few links to some &#8220;official&#8221; coverage:<\/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-996","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\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}