{"id":19772,"date":"2001-01-25T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2001-01-25T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/01\/25\/were-hip\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T16:43:54","slug":"were-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/01\/25\/19772-were-hip\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re hip."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">I&#8217;ve got a theory that if you are a complete nerd and ignore all fashions, eventually you fall so far behind that you find yourself ahead of the pack &#8211; voila, a trendsetter. (That was a &#8216;voila&#8217; missing the little line over one of the vowels, BTW. Not a miss-spelled viola.) So is this true of being a Tolkien fan, or do we just come to this website to delude ourselves that we&#8217;ve got friends?<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/cyber\/ch.htm\">USA Today,<\/a> Tolkien fandom is hip enough that the official LOTR site features in their Web Guide&#8217;s &#8220;Hot Sites&#8221; list today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a theory that if you are a complete nerd and ignore all fashions, eventually you fall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[495,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-58U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}