{"id":54799,"date":"2012-04-05T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54799"},"modified":"2012-04-05T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:54:42","slug":"samwise-gamgee-conquers-middle-earth-march-madness-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/05\/54799-samwise-gamgee-conquers-middle-earth-march-madness-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Samwise Gamgee conquers Middle-earth March Madness 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54800 no-lazyload\" title=\"2012 Middle-earth March Madness Champion - Samwise Gamgee\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sam-2012-champion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sam-2012-champion.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sam-2012-champion-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The results are in! After many weeks of intense competition we can finally crown a winner!\u00a0In the end, Samwise Gamgee, a sturdy and faithful Hobbit from The Shire takes the prize in our first annual\u00a0<em>Middle-earth March Madness!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sam defeated his worthy opponent Aragorn with 65% of the votes!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank you all for participating in this year&#8217;s event, and look forward to next year&#8217;s competition in which we will institute a few of the changes that you have suggested in comments\/facebook posts, etc. For a review of each round, click on the following links:\u00a0<a title=\"Middle-earth Madness 2012 \u2013 Round 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/15\/54327-middle-earth-madness-2012-round-1\/\">Round 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Middle-earth Madness 2012 \u2013 Round 2!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/22\/54405-middle-earth-madness-2012-round-2\/\">Round 2<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Middle-earth March Madness 2012 \u2013 Round 3!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/27\/54544-middle-earth-madness-2012-round-3\/\">Round 3<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Middle-earth March Madness 2012 \u2013 The Final Four!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/30\/54612-middle-earth-march-madness-2012-the-final-four\/\">Final Four\u00a0<\/a>, <a title=\"Middle-earth March Madness 2012 Championship Round!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/02\/54682-middle-earth-march-madness-2012-championship-round\/\">Championship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><noscript>&amp;lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/6100593\/&#8221;&amp;gt;Aragorn vs. Samwise&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in! After many weeks of intense competition we can finally crown a winner!\u00a0In the end,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54800,"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":[14,197,22,4,35,5,91,148,149,156,159,152],"tags":[1649],"class_list":["post-54799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fans","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-events-other","category-hobbit","category-lotr","category-torn-announcements","category-torn-community","category-tolkien","tag-middle-earth-madness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/sam-2012-champion.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-efR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54799","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54802,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54799\/revisions\/54802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}