{"id":3464,"date":"2013-10-18T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2013-10-18T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:39:21","slug":"a-bit-of-star-wars-history-may-soon-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2013\/10\/a-bit-of-star-wars-history-may-soon-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of Star Wars History May Soon Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/star-wars-d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3465\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" alt=\"star wars d\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/star-wars-d-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/star-wars-d-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/star-wars-d-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/star-wars-d.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Deep in Tunisia&#8217;s Sahara desert is an abandoned settlement, Mos Espa, part submerged by the sand, somehow alien, yet strangely familiar.The Tunisian Sahara was transformed into Tatooine &#8212; the barren planet with twin suns that was the birthplace of Anakin Skywalker, otherwise known as Darth Vader. At the Tunisian government&#8217;s request, the lavish set for Anakin&#8217;s home town, Mos Espa, remains intact &#8212; a beacon in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>But for those who want to experience this important piece of film history, time is running out. Although the set has withstood the elements for more than a decade, the desert&#8217;s sand dunes are moving to engulf the fictional town.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has tracked the movement of a large sand dune, which has already started to cover the set. it is moving at a rate of 4 cm per day and It won&#8217;t be long before this alien town is buried beneath the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Like any desert Oasis, this one too will soon disappear. \u00a0Watch the video segment <a href=\" http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/data\/2.0\/video\/international\/2013\/10\/14\/spc-inside-africa-tunisia-film-b.cnn.html\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in Tunisia&#8217;s Sahara desert is an abandoned settlement, Mos Espa, part submerged by the sand, somehow alien, yet strangely familiar.The Tunisian Sahara was transformed into Tatooine &#8212; the barren planet with twin suns that was the birthplace of Anakin Skywalker, otherwise known as Darth Vader. At the Tunisian government&#8217;s request, the lavish set for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}