{"id":41484,"date":"2011-01-03T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=41484"},"modified":"2011-01-03T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T14:33:00","slug":"happy-birthday-j-r-r-tolkien-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/03\/41484-happy-birthday-j-r-r-tolkien-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 15px;\" class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright no-lazyload\" style=\"border: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" title=\"J.R.R. Tolkien\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tolkien.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"J.R.R. Tolkien\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8220;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein,\u00a0<abbr title=\"South Africa\">S.A.<\/abbr>, on\u00a0January 3, 1892.\u00a0 He would eventually move to England, become an accomplished linguist and scholar, an Oxford professor and a beloved husband and father. While in his twenties, he began developing a series of stories that went on to become the rich, complex\u00a0history of a place called Middle-earth: a\u00a0world that\u00a0millions would eventually visit, both on the written page and on the big screen, and come to love. TheOneRing.net raises a glass to &#8220;The Professor!&#8221; today, in honor of all the enjoyment and camaradarie his birth would lead to. Thank you, professor Tolkien!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And don&#8217;t forget, today is the annual <strong>Tolkien Society&#8217;s Birthday Toast<\/strong> to Professor Tolkien. For complete details on the toast, jump on over to the Tolkien Society&#8217;s website. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tolkiensociety.org\/toast\/2011\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien Toast<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212; J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29032,"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":[197,153,70,159,152,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans","category-tolkien-life","category-fans-meetups","category-torn-community","category-tolkien","category-tolkien-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tolkien.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aN6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484","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=41484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}