{"id":49979,"date":"2011-11-09T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=49979"},"modified":"2011-11-09T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:15:23","slug":"cnn-goes-geek-on-the-hobbit-and-torn-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/09\/49979-cnn-goes-geek-on-the-hobbit-and-torn-too\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Goes Geek on The Hobbit &#8211; And TORN Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <strong>CNN&#8217;s Geek Out!<\/strong>: On a blank sheet of paper, for reasons he couldn\u2019t explain, one of the world\u2019s most beloved authors scribbled the words \u201cIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit\u201d \u2013 a sentence that would become the opening line to a book that would pave the way into Middle Earth.<\/p>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien may not have initially known what the word \u201chobbit\u201d entailed, but with any great story, it began with a simple idea \u2013 an idea that flourished into one of the most celebrated pieces of literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first journey all started with The Hobbit, which is why it\u2019s so treasured. The book is in every word a classic,\u201d Clifford Broadway, writer for TheOneRing.net (TORn) said. \u201cThe first journey is always the most memorable and leaves the strongest impression on readers.\u201d <strong><A HREF=\"http:\/\/geekout.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/11\/09\/2012-the-year-of-the-hobbit\/?hpt=hp_c3\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN&#8217;s Geek Out!: On a blank sheet of paper, for reasons he couldn\u2019t explain, one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[197,7,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-d07","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49979","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}