{"id":12325,"date":"2016-12-27T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2016-12-27T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T04:55:09","slug":"a-great-disturbance-in-the-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"A Great Disturbance In The Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wtoHjGWc2s8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday my sister was finally able to get my youngest niece to sit down and watch <i>Star Wars<\/i>.  (I had tried a few years ago with her older sister, who wandered off as the droids were traversing the desert after the escape pod touched down..).  She was pretty sure it was a \"boy movie\", but my sister assured here there was one girl who told all the boys what to do.<\/p>\n<p>That girl, of course, was Carrie Fisher in her iconic role as Princess Leia.  I've <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=150\">written<\/a> how I first saw <i>Star Wars<\/i> and the impact it had on me, and of course Fisher was a big part of that.  The \"spunky girl\" character has a long pedigree, but Leia was one of the first to actually take charge of the action rather than just supporting her love interest's plans.  It wasn't a perfect role by any means: she rarely got scenes as good as the one above, but then in the end, for better or worse, the original <i>Star Wars<\/i> trilogy is Luke Skywalker's hero's journey, not Leia's.<\/p>\n<p>Having an iconic role always risks type-casting, but Fisher didn't lack for work when she wanted it, and managed to re-invent herself as a writer too, all the while wrestling her demons, sometimes into submission, sometimes not.<\/p>\n<p>I think both my sister and I realized from the news accounts that Fisher had sadly suffered the kind of episode you don't come back from, and I'm sure that prompted the selection of <i>Star Wars<\/i> rather than one of the many movies the girls had gotten for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell Princess, farewell Carrie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my sister was finally able to get my youngest niece to sit down and watch Star Wars. (I had tried a few years ago with her older sister, who wandered off as the droids were traversing the desert after the escape pod touched down..). She was pretty sure it was a \"boy movie\", but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1708],"tags":[2145,1831],"class_list":["post-12325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-carrie-fisher","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}