{"id":97,"date":"2003-12-20T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/20\/becoming-a-hobbit\/"},"modified":"2003-12-20T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T13:54:56","slug":"becoming-a-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/12\/20\/becoming-a-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this Wednesday was the theatrical release of the third and last part of the &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy, &#8216;The Return of the King&#8217;. And this year, I dressed up &#8212; as a hobbit lass, complete with Ears and a scarf knitted after the one worn by Pippin in the movies. Yes, I am obsessed &#8212; why are you asking? *g* <\/p>\n<p>But first: it&#8217;s almost Christmas, and although people here don&#8217;t tend to get too crazy with the decorations, I stumbled across this little gem of a garden &#8212; an impressive collection of &#8216;garden dwarves&#8217; side by side with a little Christmas village.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/crazygarden.jpg\"><br \/>\nMade me grin. <\/p>\n<p>Today my dad, my brother and I will go and buy our Christmas tree &#8212; it&#8217;s tradition to wait so long, and we won&#8217;t even decorate it until the morning of the 24th. Can&#8217;t wait! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Back to the topic &#8212; me as a hobbit. My favorite picture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbitlass.jpg\"><br \/>\nCute, huh? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;ll have opportunity to dress up in the future &#8212; I just enjoy it!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what I looked like the evening before:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbitcurls.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Only that this way of creating curls did not work at all, so I looked like this in the morning:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbit-nocurls.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In the end I went to the theatre looking like this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbitlass-cloak.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Taken afterwards, because I realized that I didn&#8217;t have any pictures showing the complete outfit or my pretty scarf.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbitlass-whole.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatedream.net\/files\/photos\/hobbitlass-scarf.jpg\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not good with my hands at all, so I&#8217;m quite proud that I knitted this! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I am fully aware that my obsession with &#8216;LotR&#8217; goes a bit farther than that of most people, but I just love the world Tolkien created, and it&#8217;s been a bit of an anchor for me these days&#8230; Plus, hobbits rock! LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this Wednesday was the theatrical release of the third and last part of the &#8216;Lord of the Rings&#8217; trilogy, &#8216;The Return of the King&#8217;. And this year, I dressed up &#8212; as a hobbit lass, complete with Ears and a scarf knitted after the one worn by Pippin in the movies. Yes, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}