{"id":41691,"date":"2011-01-14T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=41691"},"modified":"2011-01-14T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:26:25","slug":"facebook-billionaire-inspired-by-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/01\/14\/41691-facebook-billionaire-inspired-by-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Billionaire Inspired by Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Peter Thiel, famous for making billions off Facebook, tells SFGate.com he’s finally found “utopia” \u2013 New Zealand.<\/p>\n

To summarize the story a bit, Mr. Thiel is a big fan of Tolkien and named his latest firm Valar Ventures:<\/p>\n

The name of Thiel’s firm Valar Ventures comes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe. Thiel is a huge Tolkien fan and the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed in New Zealand. In Tolkien’s legendarium, the Valar are deities who created the world of Middle-Earth (portrayed by New Zealand in the movies) and then descended on it to help nurture its infancy and development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey Peter – do you happen to have a spare million to help TORn with some server costs? \ud83d\ude42 Pretty please? hah. Enjoy the rest of the article at SFGate.com. [Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Thiel, famous for making billions off Facebook, tells SFGate.com he’s finally found “utopia” \u2013 New Zealand. To…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41692,"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":[153,495,148,149,159,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-community","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/peter-thiel.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aQr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}