{"id":116256,"date":"2023-03-17T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=116256"},"modified":"2023-03-17T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T19:17:06","slug":"get-ready-middle-earth-march-madness-draws-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2023\/03\/17\/116256-get-ready-middle-earth-march-madness-draws-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready: Middle-earth March Madness draws near&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\">I feel it in the earth&#8230; I smell it in the air&#8230; It&#8217;s almost time for <strong>Middle-earth March Madness 2023<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what will the theme be this year? Who (or what) will be the 64 competitors who enter the fray, each hoping to win YOUR vote and become the Champion for 2023?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All will be revealed next week. Meanwhile you can take a look at last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/04\/06\/112769-who-won-the-2022-middle-earth-march-madness-champion-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&#8216;Battle of the Ages&#8217; here<\/a>. Get ready to play along; it&#8217;s the deep breath before the plunge&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2023.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116265 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2023.png 947w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2023-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2023-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/middleearthmarchmadness2023-255x133.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel it in the earth&#8230; I smell it in the air&#8230; It&#8217;s almost time for Middle-earth March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":116267,"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":[14,197,3619,6,148,149,156,159,1548],"tags":[2462,3135],"class_list":["post-116256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-march-madness","category-tolkbooks","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-announcements","category-torn-community","category-torn-tuesdays-live","tag-march-madness","tag-middle-earth-march-madness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/The-Rings-of-Power-Morgoth-War.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-uf6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116256","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116268,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116256\/revisions\/116268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}