{"id":89,"date":"2007-09-21T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/blog\/none\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-lived-a-hobbit"},"modified":"2007-09-21T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:05:00","slug":"in-a-hole-in-the-ground-lived-a-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-lived-a-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home this morning, listening to NPR on WAMU, The Writer&#8217;s Almanac pointed out that on this day in 1937, JRR Tolkien first published &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;, and the title of this post were the first words written on the story in 1928.<\/p>\n<p>What a marvelous, marvelous creation. <a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/?refid=0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><cite>Literary and Historical Notes:<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>It was on this day in 1937 that J.R.R. Tolkien published his first novel, The Hobbit. He was a professor at Oxford, and in the summer of 1928, he was in the middle of grading a stack of student papers when he wrote the sentence, &#8220;In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.&#8221; He had no idea where the word &#8220;hobbit&#8221; came from. It had just popped into his head. He later wrote: &#8220;[Hobbits] are (or were) a little people &#8230; inclined to be fat in the stomach; they dress in bright colours (chiefly green and yellow); wear no shoes, because their feet grow naturally leathery soles and thick warm brown hair like the stuff on their heads (which is curly); have long clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep fruity laughs (especially after dinner, which they have twice a day when they can get it).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mr Tolkien, may you look down and smile. Thank you, NPR, for the reminder \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home this morning, listening to NPR on WAMU, The Writer&#8217;s Almanac pointed out that on this day in 1937, JRR Tolkien first published &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;, and the title of this post were the first words written on the story in 1928. What a marvelous, marvelous creation. source Literary and Historical Notes: It was on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-lived-a-hobbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[139,195,258,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pheonix.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}