{"id":1017,"date":"2004-01-16T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/01\/16\/1017\/"},"modified":"2004-01-16T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T20:29:50","slug":"1017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/01\/16\/1017\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I forced Ken to eat the worst chicken parmesan I&#8217;ve ever made (Maria, wisely, pleaded a weak stomach) and then we made DC come over and randomly watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080684\/\" title=\"Oh, like you need a link.\">Empire<\/a>.  Which, you know what?  Is a pretty funny movie.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, up until Cloud City, somebody dies <i>every time Darth Vader is on camera.<\/i>  He strangles people who take responsibility,  he strangles people through the TV screen, he strangles people while other people pretend not to notice.  And then there&#8217;s the part where one of the Star Destroyers gets hit by an asteroid, and its captain in the little holo-display looks horrified and disappears, and Vader doesn&#8217;t bat an eye.  Or doesn&#8217;t act like it, anyway.  Finally, at the end, after they barely lose the Falcon, Admiral Piett (who&#8217;s been standing around nervously as others fall like wheat the whole movie) watches Vader walk off in a cold silence and just swallows once.  The expression on his face is great.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s the problem:  thinking about the last two movies, I can only remember two jokes that didn&#8217;t involve Jar Jar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I forced Ken to eat the worst chicken parmesan I&#8217;ve ever made (Maria, wisely, pleaded a weak stomach) and then we made DC come over and randomly watched Empire. Which, you know what? Is a pretty funny movie. For instance, up until Cloud City, somebody dies every time Darth Vader is on camera. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,55,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-clark","category-ken-moore","category-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}