{"id":14799,"date":"2010-12-27T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T21:16:22","slug":"today-in-star-wars-the-firey-death-of-garven-dreis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/today-in-star-wars-the-firey-death-of-garven-dreis\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Star Wars: The Firey Death of Garven Dreis."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipmodeler.com\/contest\/dio_03.htm\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;Garven Dreis&#039; Last Goodbye&quot; We hardly knew ya.\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_top.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_top-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>MedicMike dropped this in our email with little explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The unknown artist had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Garven Dreis? Who is Garven Dreis?!?&#8221; &#8211; tcha, the name of this brave pilot, who gave his live in the battle of Yavin, is not very well known, but his callsign Red Leader is!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipmodeler.com\/contest\/dio_03.htm\" class=\"external external_icon\"> This little diorama shows the very last scene with Red Leader in Star Wars &#8211; A New Hope<\/a>&#8230; the plaque shows his last words (so to speak&#8230;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we were unsure if this was inventive or just plain lazy, we asked MedicMike. Of course he cleared up everything with the simple statement, &#8220;At best, it&#8217;s an inventive way to be lazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p>One more view below the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipmodeler.com\/contest\/dio_03.htm\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_side.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Crash! Boom! Bang!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_side.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/dio_03_side-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>via medicmike, <a href=\"\"Garven Dreis? Who is Garven Dreis?!?\" - tcha, the name of this brave pilot, who gave his live in the battle of Yavin, is not very well known, but his callsign Red Leader is! This little diorama shows the very last scene with Red Leader in Star Wars - A New Hope... the plaque shows his last words (so to speak...)\">starship modeler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedicMike dropped this in our email with little explanation. The unknown artist had this to say: &#8220;Garven Dreis? Who is Garven Dreis?!?&#8221; &#8211; tcha, the name of this brave pilot, who gave his live in the battle of Yavin, is not very well known, but his callsign Red Leader is! This little diorama shows the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,55],"tags":[3255,2131,4938,685,2249],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artist","tag-a-fine-ship","tag-art-out-moments","tag-artist","tag-model","tag-today-in-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14816,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions\/14816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}