{"id":3166,"date":"2005-03-08T13:42:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/03\/08\/favorite-fictional-characters\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T19:42:04","slug":"favorite-fictional-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/03\/08\/3166-favorite-fictional-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Fictional Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Turgon<\/b> writes:  For World Book Day (March 3rd), the Independent (UK) invited 100 &#8220;leading lights of British letters&#8221; to name the characters who give them the most reading pleasure.  One writer picked Tolkien&#8217;s Gandalf:<\/p>\n<p>Gandalf chosen by Mary Hoffman (Stravaganza City of Flowers)<br \/>    JRR Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings boasts the best white wizard in fiction &#8211; not morally ambiguous or neutral like Merlin, but not infallible either. Always wise when present and strangely comforting even when predicting doom and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>For the full listing, look <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/books\/features\/story.jsp?story=616202\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turgon writes: For World Book Day (March 3rd), the Independent (UK) invited 100 &#8220;leading lights of British letters&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-P4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}