{"id":55191,"date":"2012-04-20T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=55191"},"modified":"2012-04-20T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:02:14","slug":"a-parody-of-the-hobbit-and-banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/20\/55191-a-parody-of-the-hobbit-and-banking\/","title":{"rendered":"A parody of &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217; and banking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Is banking funny? Using the bank collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008 is something of an epic banking story and a laid off trainer has produced a parody that folds in both &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; written by J.R.R. Tolkien and the state of banks. Reuters produced the following story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since T.S. Eliot&#8217;s brief career at Lloyds Bank of London, the connections between banking and literature have remained tenuous at best &#8211; especially when you narrow the focus to the genre of &#8220;banking-related fantasy novel parodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that did not stop Paul Erickson, a laid-off trainer of tellers and personal bankers for Washington Mutual, from taking an inspired crack at hilarity with &#8220;The Wobbit: A Parody.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/20\/us-yourmoney-hobbit-parody-idUSBRE83J11L20120420\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is banking funny? Using the bank collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008 is something of an epic banking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[7,4,148],"tags":[1666],"class_list":["post-55191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-the-wobbit-a-parody"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-emb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55191","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55193,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55191\/revisions\/55193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}