{"id":1676,"date":"2004-09-08T18:40:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:28:08","slug":"top-5-mania-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Moments In the Original <i>Star Wars<\/i> Trilogy:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  The entire opening of <i>Star Wars<\/i>: the scrolling text and the unbelievably massive ship passing by overhead.  My entire life changed when I saw that in 1977.  I don&#8217;t even know HOW, but I know it did.<\/p>\n<p>2.  The asteroid belt sequence in <i>Empire<\/i>.  I like it cause of the kiss, of course.  I had some of my first sensations of &#8220;Hmmm, maybe boys aren&#8217;t so gross after all&#8221; as a result of watching that kiss.  But also &#8211; the suspense is fantastic in that sequence.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Han&#8217;s first appearance in <i>Star Wars<\/i>.  Where HE SHOOTS FIRST, DAMMIT.  As a matter of fact, that entire scene in the bar &#8230; I still can never get over it.<\/p>\n<p>4.  Luke&#8217;s time with Yoda during <i>Empire<\/i>.  I loved those scenes.  The blue palate, the mossy landscape &#8230; I loved Yoda, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>5.  Hmmm, nothing from <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i> is coming up.  Am I insane?  Missing something? The Ewoks have blotted out the rest at the moment &#8230; Please help me fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The entire opening of Star Wars: the scrolling text and the unbelievably massive ship passing by overhead. My entire life changed when I saw that in 1977. I don&#8217;t even know HOW, but I know it did. 2. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[451],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17621,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/17621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}