{"id":1045,"date":"2006-11-13T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2006-11-13T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T06:45:53","slug":"i-am-a-jedi-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/i-am-a-jedi-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a Jedi loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.wikia.com\/starwars\/images\/d\/d9\/Dooku_vs_yoda.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we celebrated my son&#8217;s sixth birthday with a small gathering of five of his friends based on Star Wars.  We did nothing but open a space in the middle of our small house and let them bang away at each other for two hours with light sabers.  For a six year old boy, this constitutes a great gift (as it does I am sure for the parents of the other boys who came!).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, being the Jedi master, I was obliged to fight them all at some point, and sometimes even two at a time.  It was all going so well until I turned and got stabbed right in the eye by a boy less than half my size.  My vision went blurry and my eye started to weep.  I was fine in the end, but I had to retire, knowing the humlity of what it must feel like to be slain by <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Yoda\">Yoda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags]yoda, star wars[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we celebrated my son&#8217;s sixth birthday with a small gathering of five of his friends based on Star Wars. We did nothing but open a space in the middle of our small house and let them bang away at each other for two hours with light sabers. For a six year old boy, this constitutes a great gift (as it does I am sure for the parents of the other boys who came!). Of course, being the Jedi master, I was obliged to fight them all at some point, and sometimes even two at a time. It was all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-gR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}