{"id":629,"date":"2005-05-24T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T17:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/24\/star-wars-nerds-vs-darwin\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T17:24:13","slug":"star-wars-nerds-vs-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/24\/star-wars-nerds-vs-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Nerds vs Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/showbiz\/tm_objectid=15552841&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=94762&#038;headline=light-sabre-duel-puts-two-in-hospital-name_page.html%5B\/url%5D\">Mirror<\/a> has a brief mention of an incident involving two Star Wars fans who obviously had far more enthusiasm for making a fan-film than brains.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, aged 17 and 20, decided to recreate the CGI-created lightsabers from the films by filling two fluorescent light tubes with gasoline and taking a match to them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the two are currently in critical condition in a UK hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Mirror has a brief mention of an incident involving two Star Wars fans who obviously had far more enthusiasm for making a fan-film than brains. The couple, aged 17 and 20, decided to recreate the CGI-created lightsabers from the films by filling two fluorescent light tubes with gasoline and taking a match to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/24\/star-wars-nerds-vs-darwin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars Nerds vs Darwin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}