{"id":28565,"date":"2008-04-01T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/01\/28565-tolkien-tower-opens-to-the-public\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:07:21","slug":"tolkien-tower-opens-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/01\/28565-tolkien-tower-opens-to-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tolkien Tower&#8221; Opens to the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/west_midlands\/7324028.stm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/tolkientower.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" alt=\"Tolkien Tower\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright no-lazyload\" \/><\/a>A tower thought to have inspired one of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Lord Of The Rings books has opened its doors to the public for the first time in two decades. Perrott&#8217;s Folly, a 96ft (29m) high tower in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is hosting a two week art exhibition. The 250-year-old monument is thought to have provided the inspiration for the trilogy&#8217;s second book, The Two Towers. It will be open to visitors as part of a weekend of Tolkien celebrations starting on 17 May. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/west_midlands\/7324028.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tower thought to have inspired one of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s Lord Of The Rings books has opened its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[14,153,91,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-tolkien-life","category-events-other","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7qJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}