{"id":106620,"date":"2019-06-28T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?page_id=106620"},"modified":"2019-06-28T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:50:12","slug":"the-great-hall-of-poets-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-great-hall-of-poets-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Hall of Poets &#8211; May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>The Wonder of the Shire<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"intro\"><em>by David McG.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">There is a wondrous Mallorn tree<br>That grows free in the Shire<br>It brings the folk from miles around<br>It\u2019s beauty to admire.<br>A gift brought here from fair Lorien<br>By the hero \u2018Samwise the Brave\u2019<br>Who wandered far away from home<br>His people for to save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">Given with love, by the Lady of Light,<br>A simple gift it seemed.<br>But one that has stood the test of time<br>Far more than Sam had dreamed.<br>A wooden box containing soil<br>And a single, silvered seed<br>With a blessing from the Elven Queen<br>To help in a time of need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">And so it was that little box<br>Helped revive a broken land<br>Scoured and barren and doomed to wither<br>By a desperate Wizards hand.<br>The soil it helped the earth to bloom<br>With every single grain<br>And life returned to the much loved Shire<br>To heal and ease the pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">That precious little silvered seed<br>Brought the greatest gift of all<br>A new, deep rooted \u2018Party Tree\u2019<br>Which stand\u2019s now proud and tall.<br>Silver leafed through Summer days<br>Turning Gold like a Winter fire.<br>This mighty, wondrous Mallorn tree<br>That grows free in the Shire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\">~~ * ~~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wonder of the Shire by David McG. There is a wondrous Mallorn treeThat grows free in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1tLoH-rJG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106621,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106620\/revisions\/106621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}