{"id":87186,"date":"2014-02-26T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=87186"},"modified":"2014-02-26T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T14:37:46","slug":"happy-birthday-to-sean-astin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/02\/26\/87186-happy-birthday-to-sean-astin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to Sean Astin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Astin at RingCon 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63185 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SeanAstin.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Born on February 25, 1971, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanAstin\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Astin<\/a> turned 43 yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>Astin \u2014 actor, director, voice artist and producer \u2014 is, of course, best known to Tolkien fans as Sam Gamgee in Peter Jackson\u2019s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, but has also made his mark in a career spanning more than 70 films roles, including The Goonies, Toy Soldiers, 50 First Dates and as the indomitable, never-say-die working class hero of Rudy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s played a recurring guest role in the TV series 24 and has written and directed two short films \u2014 the academy award nominated Kangaroo Court and The Long And the Short Of It.<\/p>\n<p>From your friends here at TheOneRing.net, Happy Birthday Sean!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-1024x684.jpeg\" alt=\"Sam Gamgee\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87188 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig-600x401.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on February 25, 1971, Sean Astin turned 43 yesterday! Astin \u2014 actor, director, voice artist and producer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":87188,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11538_orig.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-mGe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87186","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=87186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87191,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87186\/revisions\/87191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}