{"id":31393,"date":"2009-03-17T19:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=31393"},"modified":"2009-03-18T02:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T07:07:18","slug":"neil-gaiman-colbert-talk-tolkien-and-bombadil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/03\/17\/31393-neil-gaiman-colbert-talk-tolkien-and-bombadil\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman &#038; Colbert Talk Tolkien and Bombadil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Michelf<\/strong> writes: The March 16 episode of Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;Colbert Report&#8221; featured an interview with Newbery Award-winning author Neil Gaiman.  When asked for favorite authors when he was young, Gaiman promptly replied &#8220;Tolkien&#8221;. When he said his least favorite character was Tom Bombadil, Tolkien-geek Colbert launched into a stanza or two of Bombadil&#8217;s song. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a5TGFOpJsf0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelf writes: The March 16 episode of Comedy Central&#8217;s &#8220;Colbert Report&#8221; featured an interview with Newbery Award-winning author&#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":[87],"tags":[722,721],"class_list":["post-31393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-television","tag-colbert-report","tag-neil-gaiman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393","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=31393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}