{"id":783,"date":"2011-08-14T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T10:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firestartr.co.uk\/?p=783"},"modified":"2011-08-14T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T10:47:23","slug":"yoda-statue-becomes-a-mecca-for-star-wars-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/yoda-statue-becomes-a-mecca-for-star-wars-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoda statue becomes a mecca for fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A life-size statue of Yoda (Jedi master of The Force) in San Francisco has become a mecca for Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-786\" title=\"Yoda statue Presidio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firestartr.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Yoda-statue-lrg-400x329.png\" alt=\"Yoda statue Presidio\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Yoda-statue-lrg-400x329.png 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Yoda-statue-lrg.png 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The statue isn&#8217;t new, erected in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/prsf\/index.htm\">Presidio national park<\/a> in 2005, but has become an enormously popular point of homage for fans of George Lucas&#8217; epic film franchise over the years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mater Yoda<\/strong> was one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi&#8217;s in <a title=\"Timeline of galactic history\" href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Timeline_of_galactic_history\">galactic history<\/a>. Known for his legendary wisdom, mastery of the Force and lightsaber combat, Yoda served as a member of the Jedi High Council in the last centuries of the Galactic Republic before, during and after the devastating Clone Wars.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-789 aligncenter\" title=\"Yoda statue - at Lucasfilm Ltd HQ\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firestartr.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2842598596_380dbf6687-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yoda statue - at Lucasfilm Ltd HQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2842598596_380dbf6687-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2842598596_380dbf6687.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fans travel from all over the globe to have their pictures taken with Yoda, who sits atop a fountain of water in these beautiful gardens, within sight of the city&#8217;s Golden Gate Bridge. The site is also the location of Lucasfilm Ltd.\u2019s impressive headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-792\" title=\"Star Wars tourism. Photo of fan with Yoda statue courtesy of Make. See. Eat. Do blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firestartr.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/StarWars-tourism-fan-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of fan with Yoda statue courtesy of Make. See. Eat. Do blog\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/StarWars-tourism-fan-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/StarWars-tourism-fan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lucasfilm is among several businesses and nonprofits that have relocated  to the Presidio, former military base turned national park,  overlooking the bay and the Pacific. Sadly,\u00a0 non-Jedi masters aren\u2019t invited past the plush company lobby of Lucasfilm without an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Guess where I&#8217;m going next time I head to San Francisco!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A life-size statue of Yoda (Jedi master of The Force) in San Francisco has become a mecca for Star Wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,64,1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-it","category-star-wars-love-it","category-web","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}