{"id":107434,"date":"2020-01-04T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=107434"},"modified":"2020-01-04T13:07:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T18:07:24","slug":"j-r-r-tolkien-born-jan-3-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2020\/01\/04\/107434-j-r-r-tolkien-born-jan-3-1892\/","title":{"rendered":"J.R.R. Tolkien, born Jan 3, 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jrr-tolkien-reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107435 no-lazyload\" width=\"275\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jrr-tolkien-reading.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jrr-tolkien-reading-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\">Yesterday marked the 128th anniversary of the birth of our beloved and favorite author:  John Ronald Reuel  Tolkien. From humble beginnings in  Bloemfontein, South Africa,  Tolkien went on to live a life filled with love,  adventure, and accomplishment. Along the way, while in his twenties, he began putting some of the stories from his rich imagination down on paper: stories of the triumphs and tragedies of Elves, heroic Men and powerful, ethereal beings that became the foundation of the rich, complex history of a place called Middle-earth: a world that millions would eventually visit, both on the written page and on the big screen, and come to cherish.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, you might take some time to sit down with your favorite poem, you might be in the midst of your annual read-through of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, or you might venture away from Middle-earth by reading stories such as <em>Smith of Wooten Major<\/em>, or <em>Leaf by Niggle<\/em>. You might even raise a glass and toast: The Professor! Better yet! Raise a glass *while* you&#8217;re enjoying his works. However you celebrate, please join us in a rousing: &#8220;Thank you, Professor Tolkien!&#8221; <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked the 128th anniversary of the birth of our beloved and favorite author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-rWO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107437,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434\/revisions\/107437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}