{"id":67660,"date":"2018-01-27T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67660"},"modified":"2018-01-27T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T15:25:04","slug":"cnn-daniel-burke-waht-is-the-spiritual-message-hidden-in-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67660","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) Daniel Burke&#8211;What is the spiritual message hidden in Star Wars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\u00a0&#8230;the latest film in the saga, &#8220;Star Wars: The Last Jedi,&#8221; touches on trends in American religious life in some surprising ways, especially for a franchise that&#8217;s so nakedly commercial. (&#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; was the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=starwars8.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-grossing movie<\/a>\u00a0in the United States last year and raked in nearly $1.3 billion worldwide.)<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--epic ad--desktop\" data-ad-text=\"show\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;It is very much a movie of this time,&#8221; said the Rev. angel Kyodo williams, a Buddhist teacher, social justice activist and &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; aficionado who lives Berkeley, California. &#8220;It draws on ancient teachings, as well as what is happening in this country right now.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But there&#8217;s some debate about what &#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; intends to say about modern religious life: Is it warning about the end of organized religion, or a parable about spiritual renewal?<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/26\/us\/star-wars-religion\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8230;the latest film in the saga, &#8220;Star Wars: The Last Jedi,&#8221; touches on trends in American religious life in some surprising ways, especially for a franchise that&#8217;s so nakedly commercial. (&#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; was the\u00a0highest-grossing movie\u00a0in the United States last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67660\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67663,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions\/67663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}