{"id":2766,"date":"2002-09-24T13:56:41","date_gmt":"2002-09-24T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2002-09-24T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2002-09-24T18:56:41","slug":"the_road_goes_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/24\/the_road_goes_n.html","title":{"rendered":"The Road Goes Never On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In a hole in the ground ...\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/ptest\/shire.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIf I lived in Middle Earth, it would be in <b>The Shire<\/b><br \/>\n<small>The rolling green hills, the springtime weather, and especially being surrounded by the ones you love makes the Shire a comfortable area for you.  You love being surrounded only by the ones you care about, and you only desire this in an environment that is vast and open to nature, unlike in the cities or the caves.<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trapdoors.org\/!\/middle-earthquiz.html\">Where on Middle Earth would <i>you <\/i>live?<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, true, but there are plenty of other places I&#8217;d love to <i>visit<\/i>.  And still more, if I had an army at my back &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brian.peace.us\/weblog\/archives\/000406.html#000406\">Random Ravings<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I lived in Middle Earth, it would be in The Shire The rolling green hills, the springtime weather, and especially being surrounded by the ones you love makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personality-tests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31850,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/an-unexpected-menu-item.html","url_meta":{"origin":2766,"position":0},"title":"An Unexpected Menu Item","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-12 1:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd suggest that Denny's fare is more like what Gollum would eat than normal hobbitses -- but he's way too skinny. \u00a0Those goblins, though ... 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