{"id":136843,"date":"2018-06-27T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136843"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T01:30:39","slug":"on-the-star-wars-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/on-the-star-wars-manifesto.html","title":{"rendered":"On the &#8220;Star Wars Manifesto&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m with Scalzi here. The manifesto is not only incoherent, the parts that are understandable are dead wrong. Or as wrong as someone can be in an argument about what they do or don&#39;t enjoy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LnsWofQZC\">https:\/\/t.co\/6LnsWofQZC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1012083054506958848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Scalzi here. The manifesto is not only incoherent, the parts that are understandable are dead wrong. Or as wrong as someone can be in an argument about what they do or don&#8217;t enjoy. https:\/\/t.co\/6LnsWofQZC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m with Scalzi here. The manifesto is not only incoherent, the parts that are understandable are dead wrong. Or as wrong as someone can be in an argument about what they do or don&#39;t enjoy. https:\/\/t.co\/6LnsWofQZC &mdash; Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) June 27, 2018 I&#8217;m with Scalzi here. The manifesto is not only incoherent, the parts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/on-the-star-wars-manifesto.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the &#8220;Star Wars Manifesto&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[78,372],"tags":[723],"class_list":["post-136843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-star-wars-media-movies","tag-nt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46003,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/re-covering-star-wars.html","url_meta":{"origin":136843,"position":0},"title":"Re-Covering &quot;Star Wars&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Oct-14 8:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember the original Marvel comics adaptation and, like so many movie adaptations done before the fact, there were a lot of ... oddities to the cover. 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