{"id":263,"date":"2005-05-20T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T17:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=263"},"modified":"2020-08-16T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T01:35:18","slug":"episode_iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Episode III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em> last night, and it did not disappoint me in any respect. I don&#8217;t feel motivated to write a review, so I&#8217;ll just point to <a href=\"http:\/\/objectivecynicism.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/this-is-how-it-endswith-thunderous.html\">the one Ben wrote<\/a>.<br \/>\nI will say that <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=262\">my essay from 1999<\/a> turns out to be somewhat less appropriate for this movie. <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em> is a grim and violent film, but that was inevitable given the ground that it had to cover (the annihilation of the Jedi, the horrible disfigurement of Anakin and his transformation into Darth Vader, the fall of the Republic and the dawn of the Empire). So my inner child did not come out and play this time because playtime was over in the Star Wars universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Revenge of the Sith last night, and it did not disappoint me in any respect.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}