{"id":3312,"date":"2006-01-05T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T18:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/01\/05\/3312.html"},"modified":"2006-01-05T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T18:45:58","slug":"star-wars-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/01\/05\/star-wars-misconceptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.theforce.net\/classic_trilogy\/b10002\/6616952\/p104\/\">The misconceptions you had about Star Wars, when you were a kid<\/a>.  It's over a hundred pages of postings (that link is to page 104), so I've only glanced at it, but it's fun.  Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>like many people, i called lightsabers \"light-savers\" and [...] i assumed that that it was because they made light, so you could turn the lights out.<\/li>\n<li>the main misconception i had when i was younger was that the millenium falcon and the USS enterprise were the same thing.<\/li>\n<li>I thought it was \"Lock asphalt into attach position\". I thought they were planning on dropping concrete on the Death Star.<\/li>\n<li>the first time I saw ANH I thought General Dodonna said \"propane torpedos\"... well, needless to say, my folks weren't thrilled at the thought of me being near the grill for a loooooooooooooooooong time since I so love to tinker with things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with many of the people who posted there, when I first saw <cite>SW<\/cite> I thought the stormtroopers were robots.  I was also confused by the name \"Obi-Wan\"; I thought there was supposed to be some connection between the names \"Old Ben\" and \"Obi-Wan,\" maybe with the \"Wan\" part meaning \"One\" or something?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my very favorite from the ones I saw on that forum was the first one I saw:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In ANH I thought owi-wan said \"As if millions of OYSTERS had cried out in terror...and were suddenly silenced.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\"'Oh oysters, come and walk with us!' the Sith Lord did beseech....\"\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,44,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}