{"id":7694,"date":"2020-03-02T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2020-03-02T00:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T00:19:25","slug":"the-birmingham-oratorys-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2020\/03\/02\/the-birmingham-oratorys-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birmingham Oratory&#8217;s &#8216;Retreat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on eBay, a picture of &#8216;The Retreat&#8217;, kept by the Birmingham Oratory at Rednal in the Lickey Hills near Birmingham.  The young Tolkien spent the later part of the summer of 1904 at a cottage in the grounds, and Tolkien would sit on the veranda of the main house with the house dog &#8216;Lord Roberts&#8217; (*) and Father Francis while he smoked his large cherrywood pipe. Apparently it was only in this place that Father Francis allowed himself the luxury of pipe-smoking. Cardinal Newman was buried nearby, in the grounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/oratory-of-s-philip-neri-the-retreat-rednal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/oratory-of-s-philip-neri-the-retreat-rednal.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7697\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* The dog&#8217;s full name was &#8216;Lord Roberts of Kandahar&#8217;, and according to Tolkien&#8217;s brother Hilary it was an Irish breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on eBay, a picture of &#8216;The Retreat&#8217;, kept by the Birmingham Oratory at Rednal in the Lickey Hills near Birmingham. The young Tolkien spent the later part of the summer of 1904 at a cottage in the grounds, and Tolkien would sit on the veranda of the main house with the house dog &#8216;Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}