{"id":241,"date":"2010-09-04T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T15:15:15","slug":"an-encounter-with-darth-vader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"An encounter with Darth Vader!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it is my destiny \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Finally, meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Prowse\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Dave Prowse<\/a> (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darth_Vader\" target=\"_blank\">Darth Vader<\/a> in the original <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> trilogy) at D&amp;R Astoria, Istanbul.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_and_Mert.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Dave Prowse and Mert B\u00f6r\u00fc\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Dave Prowse and Mert B\u00f6r\u00fc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-334  \" src=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_and_Mert.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Dave Prowse and his humble servant!\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_and_Mert.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_and_Mert-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Dave Prowse and his humble servant!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Due to release of official Darth Vader comic series, he is invited to Istanbul by a local publisher. It was announced a few months ago, and I was waiting for him since then&#8230;Certainly worth the wait!\u00a0Such a kind man, and a true English gentleman with a big warm heart. He is an authentic Jedi knight, actually! \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<em>&#8220;At your service, my Lord!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[ more photos from this event ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-241 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_Starbucks.jpg' title=\"Darth Vader invites Starbucks to the dark side!\" data-rl_title=\"Darth Vader invites Starbucks to the dark side!\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_Starbucks-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_HallView.jpg' title=\"D&#038;R Bookstore Hall, Astoria\" data-rl_title=\"D&#038;R Bookstore Hall, Astoria\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_HallView-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_MyToys1.jpg' title=\"Darth Vader comic book (signed by himself!), and my humble Airfix model kit\" data-rl_title=\"Darth Vader comic book (signed by himself!), and my humble Airfix model kit\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DaveProwse_MyToys1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it is my destiny \ud83d\ude42 Finally, meeting Mr. Dave Prowse (aka Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy) at D&amp;R Astoria, Istanbul. Due to release of official Darth Vader comic series, he is invited to Istanbul by a local publisher. It was announced a few months ago, and I was waiting for him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An encounter with Darth Vader!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[27,29,23,28],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-darth-vader","tag-dave-prowse","tag-mert-boru","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}