{"id":223246,"date":"2015-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/star-wars-wedding-photo-goes-viral\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T08:00:00","slug":"star-wars-wedding-photo-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/star-wars-wedding-photo-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars wedding photo goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A La Mesa wedding photographer\u2019s shot of a bride and groom went viral on the Internet in January, garnering more than 1.2 million views and dozens of new derivative images that fans spun off from the original.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Unveiled-Wedding-Star-Wars-Bride-Groomweb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-478 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Unveiled-Wedding-Star-Wars-Bride-Groomweb.jpg\" alt=\"Unveiled Wedding Star Wars Bride Groomweb\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cory and Carrie Shields <br \/>(Courtesy Scott Hillis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scott Hillis took the photo of Cory and Carrie Shields for their Star Wars-themed wedding in San Diego in October 2012. The wedding featured a ring-bearing R2D2 replica and a lightsaber gauntlet created by the wedding party. The photo was meant as a play on one of the original 1977 Star Wars movie posters, which featured Luke Skywalker hoisting a lightsaber behind Princess Leia.<\/p>\n<p>On a whim in early January of this year, Cory posted the photo to a message board for Star Wars fans on Reddit, a social news sharing website. It took off within the hour, quickly garnering more than a million views. Hillis and Shields now estimate it has been viewed more than two million times by Internet users around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Hillis, who owns Unveiled Wedding Photography, said he always tries to think of unique poses for his clients and knew this idea was a winner, but he never expected it to be seen by so many people.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Mesa wedding photographer\u2019s shot of a bride and groom went viral on the Internet in January, garnering more than 1.2 million views and dozens of new derivative images that fans spun off from the original.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":221810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Star Wars wedding photo goes viral","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}