{"id":1235,"date":"2006-08-03T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/08\/03\/pssstits-bilbo-here-dyou-wanna-buy-some-viagra\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T00:56:15","slug":"pssstits-bilbo-here-dyou-wanna-buy-some-viagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/08\/03\/1235-pssstits-bilbo-here-dyou-wanna-buy-some-viagra\/","title":{"rendered":"Pssst&#8230;it&#8217;s Bilbo here. D&#8217;you wanna buy some Viagra?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Why is your inbox full of offers for pills? Our correspondent finds the answer in The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins tried to sell me some Viagra last week. It was a surprise: J. R. R.Tolkien never recorded hobbits&#146; pharmaceutical pleasures as extending any further than a pouch of tobacco, but there he was in my e-mail inbox alongside an offer for &#147;CIjALIS, AMBjIEN, VALjIUM, VjIAGRA&#148;. &#147;When they had dried in the sun, which was now strong and warm, they were refreshed, if still sore and a little hungry,&#148; one Mokosh Bauder wrote to inform me. &#147;Soon they crossed the ford (carrying the hobbit), and then began to march through.&#148; [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,7-2294208.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is your inbox full of offers for pills? Our correspondent finds the answer in The Hobbit. Bilbo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-jV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}