{"id":2714,"date":"2010-12-22T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/the-star-wars-christmas-special-that-everyone-really-wanted\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:42:00","slug":"the-star-wars-christmas-special-that-everyone-really-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/the-star-wars-christmas-special-that-everyone-really-wanted.html","title":{"rendered":"The Star Wars Christmas Special That Everyone Really Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>After digging up the original <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/21\/star-wars-holiday-special-1978\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars Holiday Special<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scotteriology.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/22\/the-star-wars-christmas-special-that-everyone-really-wanted\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scott Bailey has done one better and provided us with this hilarious parody<\/a>, given the title \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QMmaO6MzK4E&amp;feature=player_embedded#!\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Star Wars Christmas Special\u2026 That Everyone Really Wanted<\/a>.\u201d You\u2019re going to love it. 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