{"id":5822,"date":"2003-12-13T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/13\/simon-tolkien-accepts-bbc-big-read-win\/"},"modified":"2003-12-13T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2003-12-13T23:01:55","slug":"simon-tolkien-accepts-bbc-big-read-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/13\/5822-simon-tolkien-accepts-bbc-big-read-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Tolkien Accepts BBC Big Read Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Tonight at a live ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, The Lord of the Rings was announced as the winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/bigread\/\" target=\"new\">BBC&#8217;s Big Read<\/a> and is officially Britain&#8217;s Best Loved Book. With 23% of the public&#8217;s vote or 174 thousand votes, LotR was a clear winner with 39 thousand more votes than second-placed Pride and Prejudice and more than His Dark Materials, The Hitchiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy and Harry Potter combined. Simon Tolkien, who attended the event, was visibly pleased with the result. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/8\/1071356001\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at a live ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall, The Lord of the Rings was announced as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-5822","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-1vU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}