{"id":30023,"date":"2011-10-30T04:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=30023"},"modified":"2011-10-30T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:46:46","slug":"chewbacca-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30023","title":{"rendered":"Chewbacca the Bear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SWcokePosters1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/29996\">posters<\/a> from my room.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1977, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/parenting\/2011\/03\/03\/1972-video-from-marine-worldafrica-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine World Africa USA<\/a> was giving away these Coca-Cola promo posters. Their elephants were used in the first Star Wars movie as the banthas \u2013 and I ended up with some free wall hangings. <\/p>\n<p>Knew nothing about the movie and I knew nothing about droids, the old guy with the Jesus circles around his head or why something was called a &#8216;SEE-THREEPIO.&#8217; Also thought Chewbacca the Bear seemed a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>A few months later, went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/8525\">drive in<\/a> and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars.<\/a> The previous year, saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c1umvAwyyCU\" target=\"_blank\">Logan&#8217;s Run<\/a> at the drive in. Star Wars was something much different.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SWcokePosters2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SWcokePosters3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SWcokePosters4.jpg\"><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Chewbacca the Bear!\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/30023\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More posters from my room. In early 1977, Marine World Africa USA was giving away these Coca-Cola promo posters. Their elephants were used in the first Star Wars movie as the banthas \u2013 and I ended up with some free wall hangings. Knew nothing about the movie and I knew nothing about droids, the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,51,53],"tags":[26,121,58,123],"class_list":["post-30023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-illustration","category-thoughts","tag-cinema","tag-design","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30023"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30031,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions\/30031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}