{"id":67663,"date":"2012-12-27T06:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67663"},"modified":"2012-12-27T06:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T11:15:34","slug":"royd-tolkien-why-i-love-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/27\/67663-royd-tolkien-why-i-love-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Royd Tolkien: why I love New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Royd Tolkien\" title=\"Royd Tolkien\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-67664 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <b>Royd Tolkien, great-grandson of the writer, is besotted with New Zealand. Here he explains why.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When I was eight I fell in love for the first time. Miss Arnell was a supply teacher who stepped in to replace the grumpy, crabby Mrs Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know it was love back then; I was just eight and keen on Action Man and climbing trees. What I do know is that I couldn&#8217;t wait to see her, and when I did my heart would skip a beat. She was a breath of fresh air and every time I went home I longed to see her again. I relished every moment with her and craved her attention. I couldn&#8217;t stop thinking about her and still do.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/travel\/why-i-love-new-zealand-tolkiens-great-grandson-20121217-2bisg.html#ixzz2GFWcKHVD\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royd Tolkien, great-grandson of the writer, is besotted with New Zealand. Here he explains why. When I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":67664,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new_zealand","category-tolkien-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/art-Royd-Tolkien-620x349.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hBl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67663","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67666,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67663\/revisions\/67666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}