{"id":11992,"date":"2007-05-25T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/happy-30th-birthday-star-wars\/"},"modified":"2007-05-25T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:45:00","slug":"happy-30th-birthday-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/happy-30th-birthday-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30th Birthday, Star Wars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_wars\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Star Wars\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/starwarslogo.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>On May 25, 1977, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_wars\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Star Wars<\/i><\/a> was released, and pop culture history was born.  I remember going to see it with my Aunt Zenia, and because we missed the first 10 minutes or so we stayed and watched the next showing.  I&rsquo;ve seen the film and its sequels many times, and having grown up with the phenomena it sort of makes sense that I don&rsquo;t experience the new trilogy in quite the same way as the old.  I still contend that it just sucks compared to the original, though. ;-p<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ll be adding more stuff to this post as I find it today, but for now I&rsquo;ll start with an excellent feature called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/news\/2007\/05\/lucas#\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars Rewired: Interviews, Galleries and More<\/a> that has a plethora of <i>Star Wars<\/i>-related articles.  If you&rsquo;re up to it, check out all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/?q=star%20wars+blogurl%3Adriko.org&amp;btnG=Search+Blogs&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ui=blg&amp;ui=blg\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Star Wars<\/i> posts I&rsquo;ve made on the blog<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/starwars\" target=\"_blank\"><i>del.icio.us<\/i> bookmarks I&rsquo;ve tagged as <i>Star Wars<\/i><\/a> (many of which will overlap).  Finally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\" target=\"_blank\">official film site<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/The+Force+2.0+Star+Wars+site+launches+video+mashups\/2100-1026_3-6186293.html?part=rss&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20&amp;subj=news\" target=\"_blank\">relaunched today<\/a>, with a lot of new features:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the hallmarks of the new site is a feature that invites fans to remix video and music clips from all six <i>Star Wars<\/i> movies, as well as add in their own homemade videos. They&rsquo;ll then be able to share them on the Star Wars site with other fans, as well as embed them in their blogs or profiles on social-networking sites.<\/p>\n<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <i>StarWars.com<\/i> &hellip; will be adding a library of hundreds of Star Wars-related video clips. These include official documentary-style videos, selections from the <i>Star Wars<\/i> Fan Movie Festival over the years, and user-generated videos inspired by Star Wars like the <i>Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager<\/i> Web sitcom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll have to head over there and check things out&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/starwars\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">starwars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/drikonostalgia\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drikoland\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drikoland<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-7882804027772732799?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 25, 1977, Star Wars was released, and pop culture history was born. I remember going to see it with my Aunt Zenia, and because we missed the first 10 minutes or so we stayed and watched the next showing. I&rsquo;ve seen the film and its sequels many times, and having grown up with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/25\/happy-30th-birthday-star-wars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy 30th Birthday, Star Wars!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}