{"id":34816,"date":"2010-01-02T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=34816"},"modified":"2010-01-02T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:04:53","slug":"tolkien-birthday-toast-jan-3-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/01\/02\/34816-tolkien-birthday-toast-jan-3-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Birthday Toast &#8211; Jan 3, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-34817 no-lazyload\" title=\"jrr_tolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jrr_tolkien-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jrr_tolkien\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Ian Collier, Tolkien Society Publicity Officer<\/strong> writes: At 9pm (local times) on January 3rd fans around the world are invited to raise a glass and toast J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Birthday.\u00a0<strong>The toast is: &#8220;The Professor&#8221;. <\/strong>For those unfamiliar with British toast-drinking ceremonies: to make the Birthday Toast, you stand, raise a glass of your choice of drink (not necessarily alcoholic), and say the words &#8216;The Professor&#8217; before taking a sip (or swig, if that&#8217;s more appropriate for your drink). Sit and enjoy the rest of your drink.<\/p>\n<p>The Tolkien Society has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/toast\/2010\/\">webpages<\/a>\u00a0for the 2010 toast where fans across the globe can let other fans know where they\u2019ll be celebrating if they\u2019re hosting a party, or just what particular tipple they\u2019ll be raising. Fans will be able to check the webpage and see who is celebrating where and if they wish to get in touch and join in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Collier, Tolkien Society Publicity Officer writes: At 9pm (local times) on January 3rd fans around the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[14,197,153,70,91,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-tolkien-life","category-fans-meetups","category-events-other","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-93y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34816","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}