{"id":31051,"date":"2018-05-04T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=31051"},"modified":"2018-05-04T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T19:03:03","slug":"may-the-4th-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/may-the-4th-be-with-you.html","title":{"rendered":"May the 4th Be with You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May the Force be with You!<\/p>\n<p>May 4th is Star Wars Day, in celebration of the saga\u2019s first release in May 1977.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31055\" style=\"width: 698px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2:13A5CC285612FFD1@GB3NEWS-13ED4C7EC5CB9CB0@2443277-13ED37FF463A0A38@15-13ED37FF463A0A38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/daily-northwestern-newspaper-0513-1977-star-wars-ad.png\" alt=\"An ad for the movie &quot;Star Wars,&quot; Daily Northwestern newspaper advertisement 13 May 1977\" width=\"698\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/daily-northwestern-newspaper-0513-1977-star-wars-ad.png 698w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/daily-northwestern-newspaper-0513-1977-star-wars-ad-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Northwestern (Evanston, Illinois), 13 May 1977, page 16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I clearly remember watching the first release of <em>Star Wars<\/em> in 1977.<br \/>\nThe impact was huge.<br \/>\nAt the closing credits the entire audience stood and cheered.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d never seen that happen before, and had never seen anything like this movie: the intensity, the graphics, the story.<br \/>\nIt was powerful.<br \/>\nA game changer.<br \/>\nMovies haven\u2019t been the same since then \u2013 a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>May the Force Be with You.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VH83SsL_fIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp celebrating \u201cMay the 4th Be with You!\u201d in honor of May 4 being Star Wars Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12235],"tags":[6713,25507,2020,30285],"class_list":["post-31051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-american-history","tag-movies-and-actors","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-star-wars"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/illustration-0504-2018-featured-graphic-star-wars.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}