{"id":118062,"date":"2016-01-17T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/17\/the-truth-about-tfas-tr-8r\/"},"modified":"2016-01-17T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T02:50:38","slug":"the-truth-about-tfas-tr-8r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/17\/the-truth-about-tfas-tr-8r\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about TFA\u2019s\u00a0TR-8R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/clubjade.tumblr.com\/post\/136841755803\" target=\"_blank\">clubjade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2a55669609c7faef50eb7e1adbbef5c7\/tumblr_inline_o0lut5Boyj1qz9e28_500.gif\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/news\/meet-fn-2199-a-k-a-tr-8r-the-stormtrooper-behind-the-meme\" target=\"_blank\">StarWars.com<\/a> has the details today on the baton-spinning First Order stormtrooper that the internet has adopted as one of <i>The Force Awakens<\/i>\u2018 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/tr-8r\/\" target=\"_blank\">most prevalent memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though he\u2019s been dubbed TR-8R, his real name (\u2018name\u2019) is FN-2199, aka Nines. As often speculated, he\u2019s one of Finn\u2019s former squadmates, and we first met him in Greg Rucka\u2019s <i>Before the Awakening<\/i>, which details some of Finn\u2019s pre-Jakku life and training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The character was voiced by Skywalker Sound\u2019s David Acord, and played by stunt performer Liang Yang.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clubjade: StarWars.com has the details today on the baton-spinning First Order stormtrooper that the internet has adopted as one of The Force Awakens\u2018 most prevalent memes. Though he\u2019s been dubbed TR-8R, his real name (\u2018name\u2019) is FN-2199, aka Nines. As often speculated, he\u2019s one of Finn\u2019s former squadmates, and we first met him in Greg &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/17\/the-truth-about-tfas-tr-8r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The truth about TFA\u2019s\u00a0TR-8R&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[220,14263,79,3763,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}