{"id":6439,"date":"2004-08-06T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T13:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/08\/06\/astin-on-the-campaign-trail-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T07:35:13","slug":"astin-on-the-campaign-trail-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/08\/06\/6439-astin-on-the-campaign-trail-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Astin on the Campaign Trail in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontSA.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> <strong>Andria<\/strong> writes: I had the pleasure of listening to (I was too far away to see) Sean Astin give a political speech at a rally for John Kerry today in St. Louis. He referenced being Samwise Gamgee from LOTR which got a loud cheer from the crowd. Of the the people that spoke at the rally (pre-Kerry and Edwards) Astin delivered the most articulate and heart-felt speech of the group. I was thrilled. (<em>SPECIAL NOTE: TORN in no way endorses or condemns the political views of candidates or cast members supporting candidates. We just report.<\/em>)<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andria writes: I had the pleasure of listening to (I was too far away to see) Sean Astin&#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":[10,5,130,59,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-old-main-news","category-astin","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1FR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439","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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}