{"id":9146,"date":"2009-12-18T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=9146"},"modified":"2009-12-18T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T00:28:09","slug":"something-no-one-talks-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9146","title":{"rendered":"Something no one talks about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed id=VideoPlayback src=http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=323909610753051544&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application\/x-shockwave-flash> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous television programs in history. And it&#8217;s so bad that it actually comes around to good again, but passes it right up.&#8217; -Ralph Garman, voice actor, The Family Guy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember &#8211; as a kid &#8211; watching this in some sort of zombie-like shock. The Star Wars Holiday Special aired Friday night, November 17, 1978. Only <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special\" target=\"_blank\">once.<\/a> It&#8217;s become a nerd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/entertainment\/ci_13965281\"target=\"_blank\">cult classic.<\/a> Lucasfilm would like to just &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; pretend it never happened. <\/p>\n<p>Features the original movie cast, Bea Arthur, Jefferson Starship, the original aired commercials (not edited out; note that they used to air <em>less<\/em> commercials back then) and a not-so-bad first-ever-appearance of Boba Fett animated bit.<\/p>\n<p>Sit back, it&#8217;s just under two unwatchable hours long.<\/p>\n<p>Happy holidays!<\/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=\"Something no one talks about\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/9146\"  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>&#8216;The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous television programs in history. And it&#8217;s so bad that it actually comes around to good again, but passes it right up.&#8217; -Ralph Garman, voice actor, The Family Guy I remember &#8211; as a kid &#8211; watching this in some sort of zombie-like shock. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-9146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146","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=9146"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9467,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9146\/revisions\/9467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}