{"id":487,"date":"2008-02-08T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T11:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:26:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:26:40","slug":"princess-leia-statuethingie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Princess Leia Statue&#8230;Thingie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/leiastatue.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Leia Statue' \/>This &#8220;animaquette&#8221; is produced by <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.gentlegiantltd.com\/\">Gentle Giant<\/A>, a purveyor of all kinds of weird fantasy tchotchkes.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe I can put it any more succinctly than <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.the-isb.com\/?p=160\">Chris&#8217;s Invincible Super-Blog<\/A> already has:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those of you who busy trying desperately to make sense of a world gone mad, allow me to confirm your mind-shattering suspicions: This is indeed a five and a half foot-tall representation of what Princess Leia from Star Wars would look like if she was a cartoon, and is referred to as a Monument rather than a statue, presumably owing to the fact that it will serve to memorialize the buyer\u2019s hopes of ever actually losing his virginity.<\/p>\n<p>And it is <EM>eight hundred dollars<\/EM>. So yes, dear reader: You can put a price on dignity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For reference, you can see it next to a live human <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.statuetoys.com\/star-wars-life-size-animated-princess-leia-monument-statue.html\">here<\/A>.  She seems unusually sobersided; stick me next to this thing and there&#8217;s no <EM>way<\/EM> I could keep a straight face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8220;animaquette&#8221; is produced by Gentle Giant, a purveyor of all kinds of weird fantasy tchotchkes. I don&#8217;t believe I can put it any more succinctly than Chris&#8217;s Invincible Super-Blog already has: For those of you who busy trying desperately to make sense of a world gone mad, allow me to confirm your mind-shattering suspicions: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}