{"id":7512,"date":"2003-11-15T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/11\/15\/lord-of-the-gold-ring\/"},"modified":"2003-11-15T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T16:04:08","slug":"lord-of-the-gold-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/11\/15\/7512-lord-of-the-gold-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Gold Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><b>Ethan Gilsdorf<\/b> writes: Once upon a time, J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings was considered a work of literary genius. But now, thanks to movie and merchandising spinoffs, the author&#8217;s reputation is foundering in a sea of commercialism. Which book was cited &#8220;greatest of the century&#8221; in several British polls? Which first two films of a trilogy grossed more than $1.8 billion worldwide? What author sold at least 100 million books &#8212; 11 million in the United States alone last year &#8212; and also wrote what has been called &#8220;the world&#8217;s most popular work of fiction&#8221;? [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/magazine\/articles\/2003\/11\/16\/lord_of_the_gold_ring\/\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Gilsdorf writes: Once upon a time, J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings was considered a work&#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-7512","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-1Xa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512","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=7512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}