{"id":31816,"date":"2019-05-10T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=31816"},"modified":"2019-05-10T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T21:32:28","slug":"tolkien-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/tolkien-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien, The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Huxley (9) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0395489326\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0395489326&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=596631585766d273c562b0139ab6c20e\">LOTR<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0395489326\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  The other day we got through Gandalf&#8217;s long soliloquy on his problems in Isengard, and Huxley went more or less off to sleep. Later, I heard him singing from the bedroom, &#8220;Frodo and Bilbo sitting in a tree &#8230; K I S S I N G.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, vaguely apropos of that, there is this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZ1vn85iQRE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Should be interesting and, of course, highly controversial, as are all things LOTR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Huxley (9) LOTR. The other day we got through Gandalf&#8217;s long soliloquy on his problems in Isengard, and Huxley went more or less off to sleep. Later, I heard him singing from the bedroom, &#8220;Frodo and Bilbo sitting in a tree &#8230; K I S S I N G.&#8221; Anyway, vaguely apropos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/tolkien-the-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tolkien, The Movie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5024],"tags":[5932,5933,1875,5934],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bilbofrodosbday2008-nocrowns-crop-1.jpg?fit=575%2C459&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8ha","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816"}],"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=31816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31818,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816\/revisions\/31818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}