{"id":787,"date":"2007-06-26T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:20:09","slug":"the-hobbit-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit, Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/hobbit-j-r-r-tolkien.html\">read The Hobbit to my boys<\/a> and we all loved it. I recently found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hobbit-J-R-Tolkien\/dp\/0788789562\/ref=ed_oe_a\/103-4141399-5866217?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1182829750&amp;sr=1-3\">this audio version<\/a> for a great deal (about $5!- not at Amazon). We have only listened to the first few minutes so far but we were taken with it immediately. The reading is really well done. My 9 year old checked yesterday to make sure I was not listening to it without them! He did not want to miss out on any of it.<\/p>\n<p>Listening again to the introduction of Gandalf I was struck particularly by one line:<br \/>\n&#8220;Tales and adventures sprouted up all over the place wherever he went.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I found myself thinking, I want that reputation with my own kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago I read The Hobbit to my boys and we all loved it. I recently found this audio version for a great deal (about $5!- not at Amazon). We have only listened to the first few minutes so far but we were taken with it immediately. The reading is really well done. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Hobbit, Audio&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":[159,229,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}