{"id":1588,"date":"2007-05-25T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2007-05-25T20:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:57:18","slug":"the_force_is_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"The Force Is Strong In This One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Star Wars<\/i><\/a>. And while I wish I could say that I was one of those guys who saw it in the theaters umpteen times, I cannot. After all, I was barely four at the time. I didn’t have the full Star Wars cinematic experience until three years later, when my dad took to me to see The Empire Strikes Back<\/i>. I was a little bewildered with the plot because somehow I still hadn’t seen the first one (remember, this was back when VCRs and cable TV were still in their “early adopter” phase and my parents hadn’t adopted either). I was sitting in theater, trying to puzzle out exactly who these Rebels were and why the Empire didn’t seem to like them very much. Then the AT-ATs<\/a> invaded Hoth and I became too enthralled to think much about the backstory. <\/p>\n

Since then, the Star Wars films (at least the original trilogy) have served as a kind of mental comfort food. In later years, they were the movies I would put on when I was feeling sick or bored. I fantasized about being able to move objects with my Jedi mind powers. They were second only to my father (who introduced me to Asimov and Tolkien and chess and computers) in terms of awakening my inner geek. So thanks, Mr. Lucas. Your prequels left me a bit cold, but I could watch Episode IV a hundred more times and never get tired of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Star Wars. And while I wish I could say that I was one of those guys who saw it in the theaters umpteen times, I cannot. After all, I was barely four at the time. I didn’t have the full Star Wars cinematic experience until three […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-pC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}