{"id":3442,"date":"2013-01-14T14:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2013-01-14T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T19:49:16","slug":"on-first-looking-into-jacksons-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"On First Looking into Jackson&#8217;s Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m blatently pulling this across from <a title=\"On First Looking into Jackson't Hobbit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerangepoetry.com\/?p=98\" target=\"_blank\">Free Range Poetry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Many\u2019s the children\u2019s tale or poem or book<br \/>\nI\u2019ve seen turned to a movie on the screen;<br \/>\nI worried what this Hobbit film would mean,<br \/>\nand how bald-faced the liberties he\u2019d took?<br \/>\nFrom many had I heard a pre-viewed look:<br \/>\nThe latest Peter Jackson film they&#8217;d seen,<br \/>\nand urged me skip, at risk of primal scream \u2014<br \/>\nAn Unexpected Journey, best forsook!<br \/>\nAnd yet this weekend past, I sat entranced<br \/>\nwhile Tolkien\u2019s dream of Shire-folk unwound,<br \/>\nwhile stout Bilbo with ogres fought and danced,<br \/>\nlike Arthur Dent, whose courage must be found.<br \/>\nAnd Gollum gollum\u2019s best, and thus advanced<br \/>\nthe tale \u2013 our Precious, lying on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If John Keats reviewed The Hobbit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,37,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}