{"id":100437,"date":"2016-02-25T08:14:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=100437"},"modified":"2016-02-25T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T13:14:07","slug":"happy-birthday-to-sean-astin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2016\/02\/25\/100437-happy-birthday-to-sean-astin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Sean Astin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Astin at RingCon 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63185 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Born on February 25, 1971, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanAstin\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Astin<\/a> turns 45 today!<\/p>\n<p>Astin &#8212; actor, director, voice artist and producer &#8212; is, of course, best known to Tolkien fans as Sam Gamgee in Peter Jackson\u2019s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but has also made his mark in a career spanning more than 70 films roles, including The Goonies, Toy Soldiers, 50 First Dates and as the indomitable, never-say-die working class hero of Rudy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s played a recurring guest role in the TV series 24 and has written and directed two short films &#8212; the academy award nominated Kangaroo Court and The Long And the Short Of It.<\/p>\n<p>From your friends here at TheOneRing.net, Happy Birthday Sean!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-1024x684.jpeg\" alt=\"Sam Gamgee\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87188 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-600x401.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on February 25, 1971, Sean Astin turns 45 today! Astin &#8212; actor, director, voice artist and producer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":87188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-q7X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100438,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100437\/revisions\/100438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}