{"id":115534,"date":"2022-10-27T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=115534"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:15:01","slug":"rest-in-peace-jules-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/10\/27\/115534-rest-in-peace-jules-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Jules Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">Co-creator of animation that continues to delight generations of viewers passes away at 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many individuals came to Tolkien through the gateway of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_(1977_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Hobbit animated feature\"><em>The Hobbit<\/em> animated feature<\/a>, first aired on American television in November, 1977? This Took, for one. Who knows if <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, collecting dust on my big sister Nancy&#8217;s bookshelf, would have ever made it into my hands two years later if I hadn&#8217;t been primed with this classic cartoon? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recognition of Bass upon his passing proliferates the internet today. You might enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fatherly.com\/entertainment\/the-hobbit-1977-jules-bass?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=organicsocial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> wonderful homage to Rankin and Bass&#8217; <em>The Hobbit<\/em> cartoon &#8211; and its impact on the fantasy film genre &#8211; by Ryan Britt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We at TheOneRing.net thank you for your vision, dedication, and artistry, Jules Bass. May you rest in peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-creator of animation that continues to delight generations of viewers passes away at 87. How many individuals came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":113476,"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-115534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2001-Warner-Bros-Entertainment-Rankin-Bass-Hobbit.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-u3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115534","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115538,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115534\/revisions\/115538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}