{"id":56,"date":"2005-05-24T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=56"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:23:03","slug":"phantom-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2005\/05\/phantom-limbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html','popup','width=490,height=600,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"limbs-small.jpg\" class=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/limbs-small.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html','popup','width=490,height=600,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Click to see the images&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nWell I have been re-watching all of the Star Wars films in the lead-up to Return of the Sith (which I have now seen twice&#8230;goes without saying-I totally loved it), and I was struck by the sheer number of limbs that are cut off in the whole saga. <a href=\"http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/blog\/archives\/images\/phantom_limbs.html','popup','width=490,height=600,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">Here is a visual audit<\/a> of the best instances of severed limbs I could find&#8230;severed by lightsaber (or other means) in the pre-Sith saga (though I will need to update this after Sith comes out on DVD). Also, I was left with the nagging question: why, out of all the Jedi we see in the early films, are there none with limbs missing? I suppose that they would merely have robotic prostheses, ala Anakin and Luke. Though it would be cool to see some stumps, with all those lightsabers flying around&#8230;Seems that lightsabers cauterize the wounds, though I guess that wasn&#8217;t the case with the Walrus-man&#8217;s arm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to see the images&#8230; Well I have been re-watching all of the Star Wars films in the lead-up to Return of the Sith (which I have now seen twice&#8230;goes without saying-I totally loved it), and I was struck by the sheer number of limbs that are cut off in the whole saga. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}