{"id":4405,"date":"2017-12-10T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2017-12-26T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T13:54:04","slug":"stone-zoo-intergalactic-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/12\/10\/stone-zoo-intergalactic-night\/","title":{"rendered":"How Li\u2019l Kylo Ren Met Big Kylo Ren At Stone Zoo\u2019s Intergalactic Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 4-year-old was so excited to go to the Stone Zoo\u2019s Intergalactic Night<\/a>. In addition to the Stoneham zoo\u2019s annual twinkling ZooLights<\/a> decorations (on view through Dec. 31), there would be local members of the 501st Legion and the Rebel Legion, Star Wars fans who dress up in movie-quality costumes.<\/p>\n

For days the 4-year-old kept excitedly asking if Intergalactic Night was tonight. And finally it was. He dressed up in his Kylo Ren costume and red light-up lightsaber and we were off.<\/p>\n

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Intergalactic Night at Stone Zoo’s ZooLights, Dec. 10, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first Star Wars folks we met were the bounty hunter Boba Fett and a Stormtrooper. Zoo staff asked to take a photo of Li\u2019l Kylo Ren with the group\u2014and asked us to sign away all rights to our likeness and all manipulation of it forever. Which we happily did so because, you know, The Empire.<\/p>\n

\"Intergalactic<\/a>
Intergalactic Night at Stone Zoo’s ZooLights, Dec. 10, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we met a Rebel pilot and a couple of Jedi. They happily posed with Li\u2019l Kylo Ren as friends. Until I reminded everyone that they were actually enemies.<\/p>\n

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Intergalactic Night at Stone Zoo’s ZooLights, Dec. 10, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along a dark path, we bumped into grown-up Kylo Ren, who kindly offered to let Li\u2019l Kylo Ren hold his iconic lightsaber. Li\u2019l Kylo Ren was having none of it. \u201cThat\u2019s right. Don\u2019t trust him. He\u2019s a bad guy,\u201d I hollered.<\/p>\n

\"Intergalactic<\/a>
Intergalactic Night at Stone Zoo’s ZooLights, Dec. 10, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We searched for Darth Vader. We wandered through the beautiful forest of lit-up trees. We saw some gingerbread people, a yeti and an ice-dancing polar bear. But we found no sign of the evil Sith lord.<\/p>\n

So Li\u2019l Kylo Ren, thwarted again, could only yell, \u201cGrandfather, I will finish what you started,\u201d into the chilly zoo air.<\/p>\n

\"ZooLights<\/a>
ZooLights at Stone Zoo. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"ZooLights<\/a>
ZooLights at Stone Zoo. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"ZooLights<\/a>
ZooLights at Stone Zoo. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Intergalactic<\/a>
Intergalactic Night at Stone Zoo’s ZooLights, Dec. 10, 2017. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 4-year-old was so excited to go to the Stone Zoo\u2019s Intergalactic Night. In addition to the Stoneham zoo\u2019s annual twinkling ZooLights decorations (on view through Dec. 31), there would be local members of the 501st Legion and the Rebel Legion, Star Wars fans who dress up in movie-quality costumes. For days the 4-year-old kept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[147,144,146,97,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}