{"id":13511,"date":"2005-05-10T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/star-wars-stuff\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T11:22:00","slug":"star-wars-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/star-wars-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Star Wars\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/starwars.jpg\" \/>With <i>Star Wars: Episode III<\/i> only nine days away, there&rsquo;s plenty of buzz floating around the Interweb to share with you.  First of all, I came across a piece of merchandising that actually makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00061I4U6\/andrewchorney\" target=\"_blank\">Darth Tater<\/a> not look too bad: the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.starwars.com\/catalog\/product.xml?product_id=1890;category_id=421;pcid1=;pcid2=\" target=\"_blank\">Darth Vader sprinkler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>How Stuff Works<\/i> has a thorough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howstuffworks.com\/lightsaber.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article on the lightsaber<\/a> in case you feel like building one for yourself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chances are that you have seen a lightsaber at one time or another, whether on the evening news or down at the local cantina. Therefore you know that a lightsaber is an amazing and versatile device that is able to cut through nearly anything in a matter of milliseconds. Have you ever wondered how these remarkable weapons work? Where does the energy come from, and how are they able to contain that energy in a rod-like column of glowing power?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally (for now), I came across a pretty good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bynkii.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/i_hates_lucas_i.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Lucas rant<\/a> that I couldn&rsquo;t have written better myself&hellip; ;-P<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111563937128627864?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Star Wars: Episode III only nine days away, there&rsquo;s plenty of buzz floating around the Interweb to share with you. First of all, I came across a piece of merchandising that actually makes Darth Tater not look too bad: the Darth Vader sprinkler. How Stuff Works has a thorough article on the lightsaber in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/star-wars-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars Stuff&#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":[],"class_list":["post-13511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511","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=13511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}