{"id":6233,"date":"2004-09-06T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/09\/06\/tolkien-lecture-in-virginia\/"},"modified":"2004-09-06T19:46:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T00:46:39","slug":"tolkien-lecture-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/09\/06\/6233-tolkien-lecture-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien Lecture in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Dr. Kristine Larsen<\/b> writes: Since TORN posts info on Tolkien-related talks, I thought this might be of interest: <i>In developing his imaginary world of Middle-earth, J.R.R. Tolkien included numerous detailed astronomical allusions. Some obviously correspond to objects in the real night sky, while others have puzzled Tolkien scholars for decades. Join us on a tour through the astronomical lore of &#8220;The Hobbit,&#8221; &#8220;The Lord of the Rings,&#8221; and &#8220;The Silmarillion.&#8221; Pointy ears and furry feet are welcome, but, as a security precaution, all magic rings must be left at the door.<\/i> [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/education.jlab.org\/scienceseries\/currentseries.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kristine Larsen writes: Since TORN posts info on Tolkien-related talks, I thought this might be of interest:&#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-6233","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-1Cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","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=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}