{"id":477,"date":"2004-04-22T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T10:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=477"},"modified":"2004-04-22T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T10:47:37","slug":"gil-galad-dudes-good-to-see-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/gil-galad-dudes-good-to-see-you\/","title":{"rendered":"GIL-GALAD: Dudes. Good to see you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, just to display my geek prowess, I feel compelled to mention that not only have I read the Lord of the Rings fifteen times, I read the <i>Silmarillion<\/i> four times.<br \/>\nAnd I enjoyed doing it.<br \/>\nThis doesn&#8217;t make me more of a fan or more geek than thou &#8212; I think the trick to reading the Silmarillion isn&#8217;t to approach it as a novel, but as a book on mythology.  As a book on mythology, it kicks ass, but that has to be what you&#8217;re in the mood for, and what you expect to get.<br \/>\nThat said, it&#8217;s certainly not for everyone, but now (via BoingBoing), I present <a title=\"camwyn: And now the ENTIRE THING.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/camwyn\/328358.html\">THE ENTIRE SILMARILLION IN ONE THOUSAND WORDS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ILUVATAR: Ahem.<br \/>\nAINUR: Wow! Existence!<br \/>\nILUVATAR: *blows pitch pipe* LA!<br \/>\nAINUR: LA LA LA!<br \/>\nILUVATAR: LA LA!<br \/>\nAINUR: LA LA!<br \/>\nMELKOR: This sucks. BUM BUM BA DUM!<br \/>\nAINUR: Um. . . la?<br \/>\nILUVATAR: Ahem. LA!<br \/>\nMELKOR: Boop bop-a-doo-bop!<br \/>\nILUVATAR: LA, dammit.<br \/>\nMELKOR: Bwam bardle ningle boom.<br \/>\nAINUR: . . .<br \/>\nILUVATAR: Right, you&#8217;re out of the band.<br \/>\nMELKOR: Fine, I was leaving anyway.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, just to display my geek prowess, I feel compelled to mention that not only have I read the Lord of the Rings fifteen times, I read the Silmarillion four times. And I enjoyed doing it. This doesn&#8217;t make me more of a fan or more geek than thou &#8212; I think the trick to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/04\/gil-galad-dudes-good-to-see-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GIL-GALAD: Dudes. Good to see you.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}