{"id":18363,"date":"2013-12-16T17:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2013-12-16T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T23:07:40","slug":"about-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/about-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I mention The Hobbit I&#8217;m talking about the hominid, or <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/12\/01\/how-to-find-a-leprechaun\/\">something related to the hominid<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/11\/21\/a-book-about-taung-and-the-hobbit\/\">a book about the hominid<\/a>.  But here I want to point you to something related to the book by Tolkien and, of more immediate importance, about the science of the Hobbit and things related.  You&#8217;ve certainly already read <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/12\/13\/the-hobbit-and-science\/\">this important book<\/a> about the Science of Middle Earth.  But you may not yet have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/pascals-puppy.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/unnatural-histories-lonely-mountain.html\">this blog post by my friend Matt Kuchta on the geology of the Lonely Mountain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like many of you, I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug last weekend. Like many of you, I&#8217;ve read &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; several times (and had it read to me many times before that). But how many of you have wondered what kind of mountain the Lonely Mountain really was?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/pascals-puppy.blogspot.com\/2013\/12\/unnatural-histories-lonely-mountain.html\">click here<\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when I mention The Hobbit I&#8217;m talking about the hominid, or something related to the hominid, or a book about the hominid. But here I want to point you to something related to the book by Tolkien and, of more immediate importance, about the science of the Hobbit and things related. You&#8217;ve certainly already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/about-the-hobbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About The Hobbit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2518,3917,3918,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Mb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}