{"id":1613,"date":"2013-11-07T22:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2013-11-08T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T03:49:13","slug":"favourite-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"Favourite quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve mentioned this more than once but&#8230; <strong>The Lord of the Rings<\/strong> is my favourite book. Ever.\u00a0 So here are some of my favourite quotes from it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I wish it need not have happened in my time,&#8217; said Frodo.\u00a0 &#8216;So do I,&#8217; said Gandalf, &#8216;and so do all who live to see such times.\u00a0 But that is not for them to decide.\u00a0 All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.&#8217; (<em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, Book 1, Chapter 2, The Shadow of the Past)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Many that live deserve death.\u00a0 And some that die deserve life.\u00a0 Can you give it to them?\u00a0 Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.\u00a0 For even the very wise cannot see all ends.&#8217; (<em>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, Book 1, Chapter 2, The Shadow of the Past)<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.&#8217; (speaking of the Phial of Galadriel;<em> The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em>, Book 2, Chapter 8, Farewell to Lorien)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve mentioned this more than once but&#8230; The Lord of the Rings is my favourite book. Ever.\u00a0 So here are some of my [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=1613\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}