{"id":6358,"date":"2018-11-22T06:52:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:52:44","slug":"five-new-tolkien-lectures-from-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2018\/11\/22\/five-new-tolkien-lectures-from-oxford\/","title":{"rendered":"Five new Tolkien lectures from Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/series\/bodleian-libraries-bodcasts\">Five new online lectures on Tolkien<\/a> and his interest in languages, from Oxford, with one per podcast. I have no interest in the intricacies of his invented languages, but in this case it&#8217;s real languages such as Old Norse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/lang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/lang.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regrettably they&#8217;ve only put up the videos, and they&#8217;re over a Gb each to download and there&#8217;s no plucking torrent so the download speed can&#8217;t be throttled back.  We don&#8217;t all have gigaspeed Internet like Oxford does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five new online lectures on Tolkien and his interest in languages, from Oxford, with one per podcast. I have no interest in the intricacies of his invented languages, but in this case it&#8217;s real languages such as Old Norse. Regrettably they&#8217;ve only put up the videos, and they&#8217;re over a Gb each to download and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}