{"id":665,"date":"2026-10-18T21:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=665"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:06:39","slug":"x-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"X-Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"A long time ago I remember people talking about one of the things that made star wars great was the thought that went into little things like, the X-Wings were dirty. As in this was a rag tag bunch of people who were scraping together a rebellion and they didn&#8217;t have fancy new shiny clean fighters.<br \/><br \/>That&#8217;s all true and it works well, but this weekend I realized something was missing.<br \/><br \/>I have a car that&#8217;s 20 years old and it&#8217;s got its problems. Some of them manifest as warning lights on the dashboard indicating this system is failing and that subsystem is broken.<br \/><br \/>It occurs to me that very likely the X-Wings fighters aren&#8217;t in perfect shape, and given how complicated a space ship is compared to my 20 year old car, they should have blinking lights and yellow warning buzzers going off all over the place.<br \/><br \/>And they should have pieces of black electrical tape covering up some of the more annoying ones.<br \/><br \/>But I don&#8217;t recall seeing that in any of the X-Wings in star wars.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago I remember people talking about one of the things that made star wars great was the thought that went into little things like, the X-Wings were dirty. As in this was a rag tag bunch of people who were scraping together a rebellion and they didn&#8217;t have fancy new shiny clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}