{"id":92235,"date":"2015-05-02T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92235"},"modified":"2015-04-13T07:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:25:45","slug":"the-beatles-wanted-to-film-the-lord-of-the-rings-starring-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/05\/the-beatles-wanted-to-film-the-lord-of-the-rings-starring-themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles Wanted to Film &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; Starring Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2013\/02\/why-tolkien-nixed-a-beatles-lord-of-the-rings\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tolkien, thanks be to God, said no.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep alive the memory of the age that is gone. so that people will remember the Great Danger and so love their beloved land all the more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tolkien, thanks be to God, said no. \u201cKeep alive the memory of the age that is gone. so that people will remember the Great Danger and so love their beloved land all the more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-92235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tolkiena"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Beatles Wanted to Film &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; 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