{"id":28273,"date":"2008-01-14T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/01\/14\/28273-the-times-names-50-greatest-postwar-writers-tolkien-comes-in-6th\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:20:13","slug":"the-times-names-50-greatest-postwar-writers-tolkien-comes-in-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/01\/14\/28273-the-times-names-50-greatest-postwar-writers-tolkien-comes-in-6th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times Names 50 greatest postwar writers: Tolkien Comes in 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a> The Lord of the Rings has remained popular since the 1960s, and became a hugely successful film trilogy. Tolkien\u2019s themes of fellowship, sacrifice and the importance of the natural world are traceable to his experiences in the First World War, as well as to a love of folklore and of myth. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa and educated at King Edward 1V School, Birmingham, and Oxford. His mother, who inspired a love of fairytales and Roman Catholicism, died when he was 12. The Times Names 50 greatest postwar writers: Tolkien Comes in 6th<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lord of the Rings has remained popular since the 1960s, and became a hugely successful film trilogy….<\/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_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,7,153,35,38,148,37],"tags":[386,385],"class_list":["post-28273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fotr-book","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-hobbit","category-ttt-book","tag-amanda-craig","tag-the-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28273","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=28273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}