{"id":37840,"date":"2013-06-16T22:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/a-happy-fathers-day.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T13:12:09","slug":"a-happy-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/a-happy-fathers-day.html","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Fathers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I was given gifts, I was fed with food and drink (and drink), I was complemented on my teaching of the geekiness, and assured I was the best Dad ever. I was also gifted with a Blu-Ray of the first <i>Hobbit<\/i> film, and strongly encouraged to watch same with the family.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to beat that.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-r2-l8Y1AXOs\/Ub6PEBsJRdI\/AAAAAAAAcT8\/kSxnopyYNhs\/The-Hobbit-An-Unexpected-Journey-651825%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8Coh1QfJdjW' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given gifts, I was fed with food and drink (and drink), I was complemented on my teaching of the geekiness, and assured I was the best Dad ever. I was also gifted with a Blu-Ray of the first Hobbit film, and strongly encouraged to watch same with the family. Hard to beat that. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/a-happy-fathers-day.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Happy Fathers Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,69,68,382,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-family","category-holidays","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40234,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/on-a-street-in-orange-county-there-sits-the-hobbit.html","url_meta":{"origin":37840,"position":0},"title":"On a Street in Orange County, There Sits &quot;The Hobbit&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Dec-13 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"I always love a chance to visit \"The Hobbit\" for dinner, as Margie and I did last night with Mary and Stan. 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In other words, it was like NaNoWriMo, with a multi-million dollar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/tolkien-reading-the-hobbit.html","url_meta":{"origin":37840,"position":3},"title":"Tolkien reading &quot;The Hobbit&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Aug-15 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a 1952 reading by J R R Tolkien of Bilbo and Gollumn riddling each other in The Hobbit, recorded by a friend with a portable tape recorder. It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation. 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