{"id":5553,"date":"2003-12-28T10:53:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-28T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/28\/holy-hobbits-fans-take-umbrage\/"},"modified":"2003-12-28T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-28T16:53:49","slug":"holy-hobbits-fans-take-umbrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/28\/5553-holy-hobbits-fans-take-umbrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Hobbits! Fans take umbrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">In your TV review of &#8220;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,&#8221; you made mention of Gandalf&#8217;s unusual physical prowess for a seemingly &#8220;old man.&#8221; From the books, I know that Gandalf is not really &#8220;human.&#8221; All wizards are actually ancient spirits given human form, which accounts for their powerful magical abilities (as opposed to the &#8220;subtle&#8221; magic of the elves and such). [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/answ-man\/sho-sunday-ebert28.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your TV review of &#8220;Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,&#8221; you made mention of Gandalf&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553","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=5553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}