{"id":3268,"date":"2006-10-23T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2006-10-23T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:04:36","slug":"ice-ice-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/23\/ice-ice-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice, Ice baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a friend of mine saw that they were selling tiny yetis at Burger King, she thoughtfully picked one up for me.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='\/images\/wampa1.jpg'><\/div>\n<p>(Let me take a moment, here, to interject a rather shocking announcement:  I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about yetis.  Or abominable snowmen.  Or bigfoot.  Or even Sasquatch, native to our region though they may be.  Honestly, I just picked this site&#8217;s name out of the ether, not out of any love of or interest in cryptozoology.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong:  I appreciate it when you send me links to <a href='http:\/\/www.neko-chan.com\/details.html?mgiToken=11C8I1E81R6BSP3&#038;Code=XO-YE'>yeti ornaments<\/a> or <a href='http:\/\/www.yetisports.org\/'>yeti flash games<\/a> or <a href='http:\/\/www.yeticycles.com\/'>yeti bicycles<\/a> or <a href='http:\/\/www.newweb.net\/cgi-bin\/yeti\/yeticgi.pl'>yeti, the knowbot<\/a> or <a href='http:\/\/www.phobe.com\/yeti\/'>yeti@home<\/a>, but only because it&#8217;s nice to occasionally receive email that doesn&#8217;t have a forged paypal.com return address.  If you guys keep giving me yeti stuff I&#8217;m going to eventually wind up like The Lady At The License Renewal Place Whose Cubicle Is Filled With Tigger-Related Paraphernalia. And nobody wants that.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Any<\/em>way, I did what I do with all unwanted gifts:  coated it in catnip and threw it at my kitties.  But at some point The Squirrelly&#8217;s must have got a hold of it, because a few days later it resurfaced in his room.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;d known then what I know now, I never would have let this fall into the hands on an innocent child.  Yesterday, while picking it up from the floor, I noticed for the first time that it had a tag on the back.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='\/images\/wampa2.jpg'><\/div>\n<p><em>Star Wars?<\/em>, thought I.  <em>There were no yetis in Star Wars<\/em>.    Only then did I realize the truth. This was no yeti, this was a <a href='http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/databank\/creature\/wampa\/index.html'>Wampa Ice Creature<\/a>, the creature that savagely attacked Luke Skywalker on the planet of Hoth, nearly killing the young Jedi and snuffing out the hopes of the fledgling rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>My god, what are we teaching this generation of children?  First we have the prequels, portraying Darth Vader as the kind of sensitive romantic more likely to join a boy band called &#8220;Ready 4 Cuddles&#8221; than the Sith, and now the Wampa Ice Creature is being recast as an adorable, pocket-size moppet?  Where will it end?  Grand Moff Tarkin getting named &#8220;#1 Grandpa?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t we just tell them that the terrorists are the good guys and be done with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a friend of mine saw that they were selling tiny yetis at Burger King, she thoughtfully picked one up for me. (Let me take a moment, here, to interject a rather shocking announcement: I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s ass about yetis. Or abominable snowmen. Or bigfoot. Or even Sasquatch, native to our region though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}