{"id":2055,"date":"2010-12-14T03:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T08:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:48:22","slug":"geek-cred-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/14\/geek-cred-strikes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Cred Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I continued to be a Star Wars Fan Club<\/strong> member through the first three films or the sequels or Episodes IV through VI or what ever they are currently called. I like to refer to them as the good ones.<\/em> Along with the monthly newsletter, fan club members also received posters, trinkets, stills and patches such as the one pictured above. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I think I probably still had the membership card<\/a> in my mostly empty wallet when I received this patch in the mail. It was probably late 1979 or early 1980 and I either had gained the sense not to have it sewn on a jacket or was too embarrassed to ask my Mom to do so. It was probably a real good idea being that this was the photo on my school I.D. I don’t doubt that not having the patch proudly adorning some jacket or other wearable saved me from a judicious beating or, at the very least, a severe critique of my personal foibles and quirks by the academic cream of South Jersey’s high school crop. So instead, I placed the patch back in the plastic it arrived in and it’s been there for a little over three decades<\/p>\n

For the curious, here’s part of the ad detailing all of the swag fan club members received along with the monthly newsletter for only<\/em> five bucks!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, I still have all of this crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continued to be a Star Wars Fan Club member through the first three films or the sequels or Episodes IV through VI or what ever they are currently called. I like to refer to them as the good ones. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120],"tags":[197,194,214,192,205,213],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clutter","tag-fan-club","tag-nerd","tag-patch","tag-star-wars","tag-street-cred","tag-swag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-x9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2155,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/geek-cred-best-served-cold\/","url_meta":{"origin":2055,"position":0},"title":"Geek Cred Best Served Cold","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Shall we expect REVENGE when the Jedi RETURN? 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