{"id":6148,"date":"2015-05-25T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2015-05-25T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T06:03:15","slug":"a-star-wars-quote-that-needs-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/a-star-wars-quote-that-needs-context\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; quote that needs context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Leia: Will someone get this big\u00a0walking carpet\u00a0out of my way?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where, in the Star Wars movies, do we ever see carpet, and more specifically, 1970s-style shag carpet? The joke to film audiences in 1977 is obvious, but slightly less so in a galaxy far far away.<\/p>\n<p>(Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/jake-bourbon.tumblr.com\/post\/86824522436\/happy-orthodox-star-wars-day-may-25-the\">Orthodox Star Wars Day<\/a>. More importantly, it&#8217;s also Memorial Day, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2015\/05\/04\/statue-marks-centennial-o_n_7198482.html\">100th anniversary of &#8220;In Flanders Fields,&#8221;<\/a> which inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leia: Will someone get this big\u00a0walking carpet\u00a0out of my way? Where, in the Star Wars movies, do we ever see carpet, and more specifically, 1970s-style shag carpet? The joke to film audiences in 1977 is obvious, but slightly less so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/a-star-wars-quote-that-needs-context\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}