{"id":357,"date":"2007-08-28T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T01:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobafett.com\/news\/humor\/in-the-news_070828\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:39:53","slug":"in-the-news_070828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/fans\/in-the-news_070828\/","title":{"rendered":"Headlines: Skywalker's lightsaber, kids' names and NFL's Vince Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Boba and Jango Fett are set to help NASA&#8217;s Discovery crew, scheduled for October 2007. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/08\/28\/luke-skywalkers-lightsaber-heading-into-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Engaget<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/08\/28\/0335241\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a>)<br \/>\nA shout out to Ron Drinkard &#8212; hand-picked by Lucasfilm from the 501st &#8212; for suiting up as Boba! (via <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/movies\/ci_6748374?nclick_check=1\">San Jose Mercury News<\/span>)<br \/>\nPhotos of the whole hand-off at the airport. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/starwarsblog.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/28\/chewie-hands-off-lightsaber-to-nasa\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">StarWars.com blog<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Naming your baby &#8220;Boba&#8221; makes the &#8220;exotic&#8221; list. (via Kentucky.com)<\/li>\n<li>Vince Young is &#8220;the Boba Fett of the NFL,&#8221; says blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.aol.com\/fanhouse\/2007\/08\/18\/is-vince-young-headed-for-a-sophomore-slump\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wilson<\/a>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.aol.com\/fanhouse\/2007\/08\/18\/is-vince-young-headed-for-a-sophomore-slump\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">AOL<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Headlines&#8221; <em>is part of a series of posts about Boba Fett making noteworthy appearances in recent news.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boba and Jango Fett are set to help NASA&#8217;s Discovery crew, scheduled for October 2007. (via Engaget and Slashdot) A...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13753,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}