{"id":5985,"date":"2014-05-04T13:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2014-05-04T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T19:29:36","slug":"may-the-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/may-the-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"May The Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/71251-450x-a_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1751\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/71251-450x-a_2.jpg\" alt=\"71251-450x-a_2\" width=\"450\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/71251-450x-a_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/71251-450x-a_2-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>A long time ago (2011) in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), the first organized celebration of Star Wars Day took place, as people started to notice that May the 4th sounded like a lispy &#8220;May the force&#8221;, as in &#8220;May the force be with you.&#8221; \u00a0Thanks to social media, the idea has spread like wildfire, to the point where, three years later, the thing has become a national phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got nothing Star Wars-y planned for the day, but this is the third Star Wars related post in the last week, so it must still hold some place in my consciousness. \u00a0With the new, DIsney-led movies slated to start reaching theaters next year, maybe it will wash the stink of the prequels off of the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago (2011) in a galaxy far, far away (Toronto), the first organized celebration of Star Wars Day took place, as people started to notice that May the 4th sounded like a lispy &#8220;May the force&#8221;, as in &#8220;May the force be with you.&#8221; \u00a0Thanks to social media, the idea has spread like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[2628,671,4699],"class_list":["post-5985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","tag-disney","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}