{"id":129230,"date":"2015-12-20T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T08:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/a-short-non-spoiler-review-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens.html"},"modified":"2015-12-25T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:31:49","slug":"a-short-non-spoiler-review-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/a-short-non-spoiler-review-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens.html","title":{"rendered":"A short, non-spoiler review of &quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A worthy successor, with modern sensibilities and technology and technique, to the original trilogy. Not perfect, but quite satisfying, and a lot of fun. My hat&#39;s off to you, Mr Abrams.<\/p>\n<p>(We ended up, perforce, seeing it in 3D, which was done well &#8212; not essential, but a nice add.)<\/p>\n<p>More to follow &#8230; but not tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6230279397560696049\/6230279396642704274'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-j3M0qvybY3E\/VnZmGhBSy5I\/AAAAAAADfEY\/ynBXfMZJzHE\/image25-1050x700%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4GHQiMxXSqR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A worthy successor, with modern sensibilities and technology and technique, to the original trilogy. Not perfect, but quite satisfying, and a lot of fun. My hat&#39;s off to you, Mr Abrams. (We ended up, perforce, seeing it in 3D, which was done well &#8212; not essential, but a nice add.) More to follow &#8230; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/a-short-non-spoiler-review-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A short, non-spoiler review of &quot;Star Wars: The Force Awakens&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image25-1050x7005B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40839,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/star-wars-pulp.html","url_meta":{"origin":129230,"position":0},"title":"Star Wars Pulp","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Jan-14 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"The original trilogy, re-envisioned as pulp novels. 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