{"id":86317,"date":"2014-01-16T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=86317"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:03:53","slug":"smaug-comes-to-life-in-the-pages-of-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/01\/16\/86317-smaug-comes-to-life-in-the-pages-of-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaug comes to life in the pages of a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-86322 no-lazyload\" alt=\"smaug sculpture\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We all know, of course, that Tolkien&#8217;s characters and locations spring vividly to life in the imagination, whenever his books are read.\u00a0One artist, however, has taken that a step further, and created a sculpture of Smaug from the pages of a copy of <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.\u00a0The scaly, menacing dragon leers around the cover of the book, seeking a tiny Bilbo, who cowers under his searching gaze. See more pictures and read about this amazing art work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/victoria-vmcreations-smaug-book-sculpture\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s really stunning.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/profiles\/blogs\/victoria-vmcreations-smaug-book-sculpture\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible Smaug book sculpture<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know, of course, that Tolkien&#8217;s characters and locations spring vividly to life in the imagination, whenever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":86322,"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":[499,198,7,4,495,148,1911,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-fans-creations","category-hobbit-book","category-hobbit-movie","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/smaug-sculpture.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-msd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86317","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=86317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86324,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86317\/revisions\/86324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}