{"id":8104,"date":"2005-05-19T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/05\/19\/swell-one-more-thing-to-do-this-weekend.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:51:36","slug":"swell_one_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/swell_one_more.html","title":{"rendered":"Swell.  One more thing to do this weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually hearing surprisingly good things about <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em>.  And not even just &#8220;Well, it sucked less than <em>Phantom Menace<\/em>&#8221; sorts of things, but &#8220;Holy crud, Lucas actually produced a movie that makes me glad I didn&#8217;t boycott it after the last two grotesqueries&#8221; sorts of things.  And even, &#8220;Best film since <em>Empire <\/em>&#8212; and maybe better than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>And, hrm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually hearing surprisingly good things about Revenge of the Sith. 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