{"id":28768,"date":"2008-04-29T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=28768"},"modified":"2008-04-29T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T19:13:52","slug":"so-about-that-saloncom-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/04\/29\/28768-so-about-that-saloncom-article\/","title":{"rendered":"So about that Salon.com Article&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/denis-gordeev-image.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Hobbit Party\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28769 alignright no-lazyload\" \/>Our good friend Kristin Thompson, author of The Frodo Franchise and preeminent Tolkien blogger, has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinthompson.net\/blog\/?p=251\">response<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/btm\/feature\/2008\/04\/25\/del_hobbit\/\">Salon.com article<\/a> by Andrew O&#8217;Hehir. If you are were unaware, the Salon.com piece, titled &#8216;Guillermo del Toro to make &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; films: Bleah!&#8217; takes the stance that fan-favored director (see poll on right side of TORn) Guillermo del Toro is not a good match for &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; movies. Here&#8217;s one reporter who is looking forward to the discourse in the Tolkien community as we head into a few years of Hobbit fun! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinthompson.net\/blog\/?p=251\" target=\"_blank\">Frodo Franchise<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/btm\/feature\/2008\/04\/25\/del_hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com Article<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Kristin Thompson, author of The Frodo Franchise and preeminent Tolkien blogger, has posted a response&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7u0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}