{"id":61438,"date":"2012-09-02T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=61438"},"modified":"2012-09-02T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:47:57","slug":"a-small-trubute-to-j-r-r-tolkien-on-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/02\/61438-a-small-trubute-to-j-r-r-tolkien-on-sunday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Small tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien on &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Thirty-nine years ago today, our beloved professor, J.R.R. Tolkien, passed away at the age of 81. Among his many legacies are the books,\u00a0&#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; and &#8220;The Lord of the Rings,&#8221; that have brought so much joy to so many people, including us.\u00a0 This morning, the variety news show &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; which airs weekly on CBS in the U.S., did a small segment in tribute to Tolkien. Message board member Magpie caught it and alerted us to it, and we wanted to share it with you:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"512\" height=\"334\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"background\" value=\"#333333\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50130567&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3445_162-57504493\/almanac-hobbit-creator-j.r.r-tolkien\/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nRest in peace, dear professor. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3445_162-57504493\/almanac-hobbit-creator-j.r.r-tolkien\/?tag=showDoorFlexGridLeft;flexGridModule\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-nine years ago today, our beloved professor, J.R.R. Tolkien, passed away at the age of 81. Among his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"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":[153,35,5,87,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-lotr-movies","category-events-television","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fYW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61443,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61438\/revisions\/61443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}