{"id":269,"date":"2004-06-30T03:05:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=269"},"modified":"2004-06-30T03:05:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T01:05:37","slug":"the-last-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/30\/the-last-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img78.photobucket.com\/albums\/v291\/dmeister\/qt3\/lastdragon5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While stuck at the sister&#8217;s house, I found myself watching her copy of the 1985 movie The Last Dragon. I can&#8217;t count how many times we saw that movie replayed over and over on HBO in the late 80s, but watching it again brought back so many good and bad memories.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img78.photobucket.com\/albums\/v291\/dmeister\/qt3\/lastdragon6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mean, you have the post-Prince-girlfriend Vanity decked out in her best 80s hairstyles. You&#8217;ve got the post-blaxploitation, soft-spoken, ass-kicking, kungfu master Lee-roy. You&#8217;ve got a very young Ernie Reyes Jr., before he went on to star in that series &#8220;Sidekicks&#8221; with Gil Gerard, and well before he ended up doing small gigs in bigger films like Rush Hour 2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img78.photobucket.com\/albums\/v291\/dmeister\/qt3\/lastdragon3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course there&#8217;s Sho&#8217;Nuff, the Shogun of Harlem.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img78.photobucket.com\/albums\/v291\/dmeister\/qt3\/lastdragon8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;The Glow&#8221; &#8230; who could forget that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. While stuck at the sister&#8217;s house, I found myself watching her copy of the 1985 movie The Last Dragon. I can&#8217;t count how many times we saw that movie replayed over and over on HBO in the late 80s, but watching it again brought back so many good and bad memories. I mean, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/30\/the-last-dragon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Dragon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}