{"id":13304,"date":"2011-12-26T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-26T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13304"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T19:26:06","slug":"brace-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13304","title":{"rendered":"Brace Yourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t goth, but you better believe it qualifies as horror.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Star Wars Holiday Special<\/i> has been spoken of in hushed tones in geek circles since its release.  It was a naked cash grab by George Lucas trying to capitalize on the success of <i>Star Wars<\/i>, and it was so bad it damn near scuttled the movie franchise.  No really.  As Rob over on Topless Robot, where I found this turkey, put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Star Wars Holiday Special is an atrocity against god and man. You think it&#8217;s going to be so bad it&#8217;s good, but it&#8217;s not &#8212; it&#8217;s so bad that nothing in life ever seems quite as good again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s not kidding, you guys.  Bea Arthur runs the Mos Eisley Cantina (and sings!).  Diahann Carroll is a virtual reality sex slave for Wookiees.  Han Solo is oddly huggy.  Leia is clearly drugged out of her mind.  It&#8217;s&#8230;special.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the whole damn thing, complete with commercials from 1978.  You are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bbF_ecnlyTk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bbF_ecnlyTk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\">Topless Robot<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t goth, but you better believe it qualifies as horror. The Star Wars Holiday Special has been spoken of in hushed tones in geek circles since its release. It was a naked cash grab by George Lucas trying to capitalize on the success of Star Wars, and it was so bad it damn near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13310,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions\/13310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}