{"id":45,"date":"2004-09-23T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-08-21T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T08:11:40","slug":"this-could-be-happening-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/23\/this-could-be-happening-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"This could be happening right now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says the original teaser for <em>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/em>, which I watched last night with great glee, as a got my hands on the new Star Wars Trilogy DVD set.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta say, the picture quality is freakin&#8217; amazing.  I watched all the trailers and TV spots on the bonus disc last night after watching Episode IV, and I can&#8217;t believe how much the movies have been cleaned up for this release.<\/p>\n<p>And because I can&#8217;t completely stay out of the Original\/Special Edition debate, here&#8217;s my take: get over it.  Stop your whining and enjoy the movies.  Stop complaining that Greedo shoots first or that Jar Jar has been added to <em>Jedi<\/em> for .02 milliseconds.  Move out of your parents&#8217; basement, find a girlfriend, and do some smooching to get a fresh perspective on life.<\/p>\n<p>It is okay, however, to complain that the lightsaber battles aren&#8217;t long enough, because they&#8217;re not.  I watched the Episode III sneak peak on the bonus disc and I am drooling to see that lightsaber fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin.  It&#8217;s gonna be sweet.  In the mean time, I&#8217;m going to imagine lightsabers everywhere I go, especially one cutting off the wossnames of the kid who won&#8217;t pay me for hitting my car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says the original teaser for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, which I watched last night with great glee, as a got my hands on the new Star Wars Trilogy DVD set. I gotta say, the picture quality is freakin&#8217; amazing. I watched all the trailers and TV spots on the bonus disc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}