{"id":37756,"date":"2013-06-10T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/when-the-empire-strikes-back-was-but-a-dream.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:58:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:58:38","slug":"when-the-empire-strikes-back-was-but-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/when-the-empire-strikes-back-was-but-a-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"When "The Empire Strikes Back" was but a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
In 1979 I was graduating high school — and the idea of a "Star Wars" sequel was amazing, even while the idea of a "Star Wars" media empire was … to cross movie properties … "Inconceivable!"<\/div>\n

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Retro Thing: Tiny 1979 Article About “The Empire Strikes Back”<\/a>
\n Back Before modern-day spoiler alerts, internet script leaks, and trailers that ruin any sense of surprise or suspense, we had to rely on genre magazines like Cinefantastique to dig up even the tiniest morsels of info – even about films as big as “The Empire Strikes Back”.\n <\/p>\n

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In 1979 I was graduating high school — and the idea of a "Star Wars" sequel was amazing, even while the idea of a "Star Wars" media empire was … to cross movie properties … "Inconceivable!" Retro Thing: Tiny 1979 Article About “The Empire Strikes Back” Back Before modern-day spoiler alerts, internet script leaks, and … Continue reading “When "The Empire Strikes Back" was but a dream”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","_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-37756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129153,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/a-denver-line-for-the-next-star-wars-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":37756,"position":0},"title":"A Denver line for the next "Star Wars" movie","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Dec-15 11:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the next one in May 1980, that is: The Empire Strikes Back. 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