{"id":37347,"date":"2026-06-21T12:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=37347"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:34:48","slug":"luke-skywalker-posts-heartfelt-fathers-day-tribute-to-man-who-cut-off-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/luke-skywalker-posts-heartfelt-fathers-day-tribute-to-man-who-cut-off-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Skywalker Posts Heartfelt Father&#8217;s Day Tribute To Man Who Cut Off His Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHCH-TO \u2014 In a touching Father&#8217;s Day social media post Sunday, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker paid tribute to his father, Darth Vader, the Sith Lord best known for severing his son&#8217;s right hand, repeatedly attempting to kill him, and helping enforce a tyrannical galactic dictatorship responsible for billions of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Dad,&#8221; wrote Skywalker alongside a photograph of Vader cutting off his hand.<\/p>\n<p>The post quickly received millions of likes and supportive comments from users praising Skywalker&#8217;s willingness to look past the mistakes of a father who helped oversee planetary destruction, political repression, and countless war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Skywalker went on to reminisce about the brief, precious moments of quality time they shared, such as when his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/frances-emmanuel-macron-spends-fathers-day-alone-with-his-dad-and-wife\/\">father<\/a> stood by and watched the Emperor torture him with high-voltage Sith lightning for several minutes before finally deciding to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People only remember the hand thing,&#8221; Skywalker later explained. &#8220;Nobody talks about the good times. Like when he stopped electrocuting me for a few seconds. Or that one time he threw the Emperor down a reactor shaft. Everybody makes mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At press time, Luke Skywalker had reportedly turned off the comments on his post after several users asked why he hadn&#8217;t posted anything for Uncle Owen, the man who actually raised him for 19 years before being burned alive by Imperial Stormtroopers under Vader&#8217;s direct command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHCH-TO \u2014 In a touching Father&#8217;s Day social media post Sunday, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker paid tribute to his father, Darth Vader, the Sith Lord best known for severing his son&#8217;s right hand, repeatedly attempting to kill him, and helping enforce a tyrannical galactic dictatorship responsible for billions of deaths. &#8220;Happy Father&#8217;s Day, Dad,&#8221; wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[702,1345,80,1113,263],"class_list":["post-37347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-fathers-day","tag-holiday","tag-movies","tag-rated-g","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}