{"id":605,"date":"2002-09-12T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-12T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/12\/the-epic-is-over\/"},"modified":"2002-09-12T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-12T09:50:00","slug":"the-epic-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/12\/the-epic-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The epic is over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the second time last night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s<br \/>\ntaken me 4 weeks to do so with many nights a hour&#8217;s reading, a couple of<br \/>\nweekends almost reading all the time and some evenings full-on reading as<br \/>\nwell.<\/p>\n<p>Was it worth it?.. Yes, though at the end it became more of<br \/>\na strength of will to finish it as it seemed to be never ending, rather like<br \/>\nFrodo&#8217;s quest to mount doom with the book becoming more weighty as the end<br \/>\ncame nearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the second time last night. It&#8217;s taken me 4 weeks to do so with many nights a hour&#8217;s reading, a couple of weekends almost reading all the time and some evenings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/09\/12\/the-epic-is-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-9L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}