{"id":510,"date":"2007-05-09T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/510"},"modified":"2007-05-09T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:36:21","slug":"30-years-of-star-warseh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Star Wars&#8230;Eh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, Star Wars will celebrate its 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this milestone seems to be passing largely unheralded by the popular culture. I noted previously an upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/506\">History Channel special<\/a> in which wags will wank re: the films. Star Wars nerds from around the globe will converge on Los Angeles soon for Star Wars Celebration IV, which I understand has degenerated into a far more disorganized and frustrating fan &#8220;gathering&#8221; since the last one I attended in 2002, which was itself quite the disorganized and frustrating event.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I point all this out so we can remember to pencil in this date on our calendars, PDAs, Outlook, whatever. We oughta do SOMETHING.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll try to force the wife to sit down and watch the original flick with me after the baby goes to bed. I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s her idea of a fantastic Friday night, or mine for that matter, but it&#8217;s the least I can do.<\/p>\n<p>How will YOU celebrate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, Star Wars will celebrate its 30th anniversary. To me, this milestone seems to be passing largely unheralded by the popular culture. I noted previously an upcoming History Channel special in which wags will wank re: the films. Star Wars nerds from around the globe will converge on Los Angeles soon for Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}