{"id":7122,"date":"2015-12-18T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2016-01-09T16:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T23:09:07","slug":"in-the-valley-of-the-gold-metal-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/18\/in-the-valley-of-the-gold-metal-bikini\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Valley Of The Gold Metal Bikini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/812715\/return-of-the-fans-new-star-wars-film-sparking-tourism-in-arizona-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">from KTAR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Return of the fans: New \u2018Star Wars\u2019 film sparking tourism in Arizona city<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oezZTXzXs90\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX \u2014 While the world may be ramping up for the newest chapter in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d saga, one Arizona city is enjoying a jump in tourism thanks to its part in the series\u2019 origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the last six months or so, I\u2019ve gotten a substantial uptick in the number of folks looking for photos and so forth,\u201d Ann Walker with the Yuma Convention and Visitors Bureau said.<\/p>\n<p>Part of \u201cReturn of the Jedi,\u201d the third film in the saga, was filmed in the sand dunes in the desert west of Yuma. As the excitement for \u201cThe Force Awakens\u201d builds, some fans are heading to the city where the nearby battle on Jabba the Hutt\u2019s barge was filmed back in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/812715\/return-of-the-fans-new-star-wars-film-sparking-tourism-in-arizona-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at KTAR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from KTAR Return of the fans: New \u2018Star Wars\u2019 film sparking tourism in Arizona city PHOENIX \u2014 While the world may be ramping up for the newest chapter in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d saga, one Arizona city is enjoying a jump in tourism thanks to its part in the series\u2019 origins. \u201cWithin the last six months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}