{"id":64099,"date":"2012-10-29T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=64099"},"modified":"2012-10-29T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:14:10","slug":"taking-it-back-to-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/29\/64099-taking-it-back-to-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking it back to the source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/The-Hobbit-Book-Cover.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44898 no-lazyload\" title=\"The Hobbit Book Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/The-Hobbit-Book-Cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As fans impatiently wait for <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em>, one journalist in Middle-earth &#8211; ahem, in New Zealand &#8211; has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/books\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=134&amp;objectid=10842806\" target=\"_blank\">great article <\/a>which reminds us of the humble beginnings of this extraordinary tale.\u00a0 When Professor Tolkien jotted down those few, simple words &#8211; &#8216;In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit&#8217; &#8211; it was indeed, as Gandalf might tell us, &#8216;like the falling of small stones that starts an avalanche&#8230;&#8217;\u00a0 When did you first encounter Middle-earth?\u00a0 Relive those memories with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/books\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=134&amp;objectid=10842806\" target=\"_blank\">charming article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fans impatiently wait for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, one journalist in Middle-earth &#8211; ahem, in New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":44898,"comment_status":"open","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":[7,153,148,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-hobbit","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/The-Hobbit-Book-Cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gFR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64099","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64101,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64099\/revisions\/64101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}