{"id":38629,"date":"2010-09-21T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=38629"},"modified":"2010-09-21T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:42:14","slug":"the-hobbit-celebrates-73-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/09\/21\/38629-the-hobbit-celebrates-73-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; celebrates 73 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-38630 no-lazyload\" title=\"The Hobbit First Edition\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/396352720_58725f366a-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>On\u00a0September 21,\u00a01937 &#8216;<em>The Hobbit&#8217;<\/em> was first published in Great Britain to great success. In\u00a0fact, it was so successful it\u00a0took J.R.R. Tolkien a bit by surprise.\u00a0In a letter to his publishers the following month he commented: &#8220;<em>At the moment I am suffering like Mr. Baggins from a touch of &#8216;staggerment.&#8217;<\/em>&#8221; Staggerment, indeed! Little\u00a0did The Professor know the millions of lives\u00a0he would touch with his little story about a simple\u00a0Hobbit who rushed out of his door one day without any money or a handkerchief. Happy 73rd anniversary to The Hobbit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0September 21,\u00a01937 &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; was first published in Great Britain to great success. In\u00a0fact, it was so successful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[14,7,495,148,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-hobbit-book","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-torn-announcements"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-a33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38629","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}