{"id":1866,"date":"2008-06-16T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2008-06-16T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T14:17:07","slug":"on-waiting-for-bilbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"On Waiting for Bilbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I liked to read the webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricpenguin.com\/waitingforfrodo\/\"><i>Waiting for Frodo<\/i><\/a>.  The story of Sam and Gladys and their adventures as they waited in line for each of the <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> films, it was funny and cute and charming.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the sequel has debuted &mdash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricpenguin.com\/waitingforfrodo\/\"><i>Waiting for Bilbo<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;re still <i>several<\/i> years from Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s <i>Hobbit<\/i> films hitting theaters, so this is likely to be a sporadic webcomic for at least the next year, year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll check back on from time to time. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I liked to read the webcomic Waiting for Frodo. The story of Sam and Gladys and their adventures as they waited in line for each of the Lord of the Rings films, it was funny and cute and charming. Now, the sequel has debuted &mdash; Waiting for Bilbo. Of course, we&#8217;re still several<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1866\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Waiting for Bilbo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[484,368],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien","tag-hobbit","tag-lord-of-the-rings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}