{"id":6317,"date":"2004-08-27T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/08\/27\/the-daily-shows-stephen-colbert-lotr-obsessed\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T23:33:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T04:33:36","slug":"the-daily-shows-stephen-colbert-lotr-obsessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/08\/27\/6317-the-daily-shows-stephen-colbert-lotr-obsessed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Show&#8217;s Stephen Colbert &#8211; LOTR Obsessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/27\/politics\/campaign\/27profile.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/082704_colbert.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"129\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" style=\"padding-right:3px;\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><\/a>Ringer Gum-ishi sends in an article from the NYTimes in which Comedy Central &#8216;Senior Correspondent&#8217; Stephen Colbert is exposed for his LOTR obsession: <i>&#8220;I have the luxury of not being a real reporter, and in fact, I&#8217;m not even a pundit,&#8221; admits Mr. Colbert, whose actual dressing room\/office is a shrine to all things &#8220;Lord of the Rings,&#8221; including a Gandalf for President button and an animated cave troll that serves as arbiter of his writing sessions with fellow &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; parodists.<\/i> (I wonder if the button is one of TORn&#8217;s &#8216;Gandalf for Presidents&#8217; or the original from the sixties!?) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/27\/politics\/campaign\/27profile.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>] (NYTimes.com Free Reg Required)<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer Gum-ishi sends in an article from the NYTimes in which Comedy Central &#8216;Senior Correspondent&#8217; Stephen Colbert is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[197,5,130,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fans","category-lotr-movies","category-old-main-news","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1DT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}