{"id":99,"date":"2010-08-20T22:51:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-08-20T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T02:53:33","slug":"everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-elves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Everything you ever wanted to know about elves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/08\/17\/and-now-an-important.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing\/iBag+(Boing+Boing)\">this<\/a> is real; i.e., is this guy serious?  I didn&#8217;t think so, but then I clicked on the link to go to his website, and apparently he&#8217;s a medium associated with this other medium who claims to be receiving messages from the spirit of Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>As something of an authority on elves myself, I was pleased to see Mr. Valentine confirm their vegetarian dietary practices; though as anyone who&#8217;s seen the elf documentary <em>The Lord of the Rings <\/em> can attest, they are <strong>not<\/strong> only 3 feet tall.  (The late elf archaeologist, Professor J. R. R. Tolkien (Oxford) discusses these misconceptions at some length in his articles.)<\/p>\n<p>The videoclip in the link is on the long side, but you only have to watch for a couple of minutes to get the joke.  If it is a joke&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t decide if this is real; i.e., is this guy serious? I didn&#8217;t think so, but then I clicked on the link to go to his website, and apparently he&#8217;s a medium associated with this other medium who claims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=99\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[301,73,296],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","tag-books","tag-elves","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}