{"id":29219,"date":"2008-07-16T09:32:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29219"},"modified":"2008-07-16T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T14:32:06","slug":"gandalf-defeated-the-spanish-armada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/07\/16\/29219-gandalf-defeated-the-spanish-armada\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandalf Defeated the Spanish Armada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/300px-loutherbourg-spanish_armada.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Spanish Armada\" width=\"150\" height=\"117\" class=\"attachment wp-att-29220 alignright no-lazyload\" \/>OK, this is either really sad &#8230; or Peter Jackson did one heck of a job giving &#8220;Lord Of The Rings&#8221; even more of a historical feel that he intended. An article in the Newcastle (UK) Journal talks about the complaints on how little British kids know about the world is a bit overblown, but then they said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">It may be slightly worrying that in one recent poll fewer than half those questioned knew that Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada. And, okay, it\u2019s frankly terrifying that 6% of those questioned thought that this great historical victory was down to the wizard Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.<\/div>\n<p>So I suppose the Corsairs sailing up the Anduin had a Spanish feel to them. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebusiness.co.uk\/business-news\/latest-business-news\/2008\/07\/10\/is-the-ignorant-youth-theme-overworked-51140-21314939\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The article is here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is either really sad &#8230; or Peter Jackson did one heck of a job giving &#8220;Lord&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":[49,495,31,149,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mckellen","category-miscellaneous","category-rotk-movie","category-lotr","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7Bh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}