{"id":1199,"date":"2013-08-29T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2014-02-05T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T06:20:16","slug":"stormtroopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Stormtroopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many talented cosplayers out there with Jedi and Jawas, Chewbaccas and C-3POs represented. But Stormtroopers outnumber them all combined, just check out this photo from Fan Expo. There are a lot of fans out there with really good Stormtrooper costumes. Who watches Star Wars and thinks &#8220;Vader, Luke, Solo, Boba Fett&#8230; nah, I want to be a <em>Stormtrooper<\/em>!&#8221; Sure, a few would be expected, but the Stormtroopers are <em>nuts<\/em>. There are <em>a lot <\/em>of fans with<em> suspiciously good<\/em> Stormtrooper costumes. I&#8217;ve yet to see one in duct tape and Kleenex boxes. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\/wp-content\/Fan_expo_stormtroopers_sm.jpg alt=\"Rank after rank of Stormtroopers. And not just at Fan Expo and Comic Con and other such cosplay events -- at protests, randomly for fun around the park... everywhere.\" title=\"Rank after rank of Stormtroopers. And not just at Fan Expo and Comic Con and other such cosplay events -- at protests, randomly for fun around the park... everywhere.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s too many to believe, each imbued with too much awesomesauce. And they never take off their helmets. I think something else is going on here: a real galactic invasion, happening right under our noses. They&#8217;re masquerading as fans to slowly infiltrate our society. First, conventions. Then, &#8220;ironic&#8221; appearances of Stormtroopers at bowling alleys and shopping malls, getting us used to the idea of harmless Stormtroopers on our streets. Next, &#8220;peaceful&#8221; protests in front of our government buildings. After that, who knows &#8212; maybe we&#8217;ll find out how deadly precise their blaster fire is after all. Obi Wan always seemed to hold it in high regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many talented cosplayers out there with Jedi and Jawas, Chewbaccas and C-3POs represented. But Stormtroopers outnumber them all combined, just check out this photo from Fan Expo. There are a lot of fans out there with really good Stormtrooper costumes. Who watches Star Wars and thinks &#8220;Vader, Luke, Solo, Boba Fett&#8230; nah, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}