{"id":29667,"date":"2008-09-02T20:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29667"},"modified":"2008-09-02T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T01:09:20","slug":"talk-about-the-hobbit-in-des-moines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/09\/02\/29667-talk-about-the-hobbit-in-des-moines\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; in Des Moines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <strong>The Altoona Herald<\/strong>: J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; proves that not every fantasy hero has to look like a fearless warrior. A discussion will take place from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. Monday [September 8th] at the S<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=South+Side+Library,+1111+Porter+Ave,+des+moines&#038;sll=45.451486,-73.873501&#038;sspn=0.012223,0.027637&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=41.536579,-93.630252&#038;spn=0.006521,0.013819&#038;z=16&#038;iwloc=A\">outh Side Library, 1111 Porter Ave.<\/a>, on Bilbo Baggins&#8217; transformation from a quiet-living hobbit of the Shire into a rather reluctant hero plodding across Middle Earth. Books will be available at the South Side Library&#8217;s information desk. And since hobbits generally eat six meals a day, snacks will be provided to get voracious readers in the mood. For more information on library programs, call 283-4152.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Altoona Herald: J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; proves that not every fantasy hero has to look like&#8230;<\/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_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":[14,7,192,148],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-29667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-events-lectures","category-hobbit","tag-the-altoona-herald"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7Iv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667","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=29667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}