{"id":2700,"date":"2010-12-20T21:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T15:44:54","slug":"merry-christmas-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-imperial-stormtrooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2700","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from your friendly neighborhood Imperial Stormtrooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/stormtrooper_jeff_8929.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Thanks to my friend Sandy for the heads-up on this geektastic sight: the most eye-catching Salvation Army bell-ringer I&#8217;ve ever seen! Jeff told me he dons this suit annually to do his part to raise money during Christmas. I can&#8217;t think of a cooler way to do it!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/stormtrooper_jeff_8928.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Naturally, I wanted to grab a quick photo with my little towheads right away. Having recently posed for photos with Miss North Dakota and the Governor and First Lady of North Dakota, they&#8217;re getting pretty good at posing and waiting for Daddy to fiddle with the camera settings and draining flash batteries.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve never seen Star Wars, but that doesn&#8217;t mean my boys didn&#8217;t think that the Stormtrooper was cool. They were quite impressed, and enjoyed the sight as much as I. I forgot to ask that nagging question in the back of my mind, though: just what <i>is<\/i> an Aluminum Falcon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my friend Sandy for the heads-up on this geektastic sight: the most eye-catching Salvation Army bell-ringer I&#8217;ve ever seen! Jeff told me he dons this suit annually to do his part to raise money during Christmas. I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}