{"id":2609,"date":"2002-05-29T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2002-05-29T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:42:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:42:27","slug":"skywalker_ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/29\/skywalker_ranch.html","title":{"rendered":"Skywalker Ranch = Kane’s Xanadu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about George Lucas, which blames his success-enabled isolation and unwillingness to collaborate for why the last two Star Wars <\/i>movies sucked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m always a little leery of these sorts of psychoanalysis-in-six-column-inch packets, but it sure sounds plausible to me.<\/p>\n

(Also via Quiddity<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article about George Lucas, which blames his success-enabled isolation and unwillingness to collaborate for why the last two Star Wars movies sucked. I’m always a little leery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/han-retired-first.html","url_meta":{"origin":2609,"position":0},"title":"Han retired first","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jan-12 10:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"George Lucas has announced he's retiring from Big Blockbuster Movies ... soon. 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