{"id":424,"date":"2009-01-27T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:13:14","slug":"friendship-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Friendship (Tolkien)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours- closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway, there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the Ring. We are horribly afraid- but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">(<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0618574948?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0618574948\"><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">The Fellowship of the Ring<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lpsmsfqimegrdpigmsrd\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0618574948\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, chapter 5)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a wonderful portrait of true friendship. This should be the sort of thing heard often in the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin- to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours- closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Friendship (Tolkien)&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}