{"id":30968,"date":"2012-10-30T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/whats-new-is-old-again.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:58:45","slug":"whats-new-is-old-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/whats-new-is-old-again.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#39;s new is old again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Doug M., something too long to reTweet: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Mark Hamill will be 63 in 2015, when next Star Wars comes out. Sir Alec Guinness was 63 when 1st one was released.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shudders softly &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Actually, setting the new film\/trilogy in a &quot;Yes, that&#39;s how old Luke, Leia, and Han really are, and here are their grandkids &#8230;&quot; setting sounds just fine to me &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/BassoonCPA\/status\/263457513951870976'>Twitter \/ BassoonCPA: RT@hblodget:RT@JPosnanski:Mark &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dznjRat2Ssy' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Doug M., something too long to reTweet: \u00a0 Mark Hamill will be 63 in 2015, when next Star Wars comes out. Sir Alec Guinness was 63 when 1st one was released. Shudders softly &#8230; (Actually, setting the new film\/trilogy in a &quot;Yes, that&#39;s how old Luke, Leia, and Han really are, and here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/whats-new-is-old-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#39;s new is old again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,41,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/08\/rt-history_pics-star-wars-op.html","url_meta":{"origin":30968,"position":0},"title":"RT @History_Pics: Star Wars Op&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-May-14 1:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @History_Pics: Star Wars Opening day, 1977. http:\/\/t.co\/yYRSZ2jiZL","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33646,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/rt-stoneymonster-asymmetric.html","url_meta":{"origin":30968,"position":1},"title":"RT @stoneymonster: @asymmetric&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-May-13 4:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @stoneymonster: @asymmetricinfo The end of WWII to Star Wars was a shorter time period than Star Wars to now.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128360,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/one-perfect-shot-from-tatooine.html","url_meta":{"origin":30968,"position":2},"title":"One Perfect Shot (from Tatooine)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 10:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This particular scene was what locked in the original Star Wars movie for me. 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