{"id":13585,"date":"2019-01-06T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2022-05-31T21:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T01:32:38","slug":"a-thoughtful-video-about-the-last-jedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-thoughtful-video-about-the-last-jedi\/","title":{"rendered":"A thoughtful video about The Last Jedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Star Wars: The Last Jedi<\/strong> was a startlingly divisive movie, even without Russian bots making it more so. This video is a thoughtful exploration of that division &#8212; it talks about things like whether a movie can be &#8220;objectively&#8221; bad, whether common complaints about it could also be lobbied against other movies in the franchise, and whether a sense of entitlement is reasonable for fans. It&#8217;s from a YouTube channel called Make Stuff:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aJEv4JbUZR4\">The Last Jedi: Restoring Balance to the Star Wars Fandom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quotation: &#8220;There is a human being behind that tweet, with their own feelings and passions and traumas and history. There&#8217;s a hundred things that human being loves that you love too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, his message is broader than <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> &#8212; it&#8217;s an important message about empathy for our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a startlingly divisive movie, even without Russian bots making it more so. This video is a thoughtful exploration of that division &#8212; it talks about things like whether a movie can be &#8220;objectively&#8221; bad, whether common complaints about it could also be lobbied against other movies in the franchise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[151,6,122],"class_list":["post-13585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-empathy","tag-movie","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13615,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}