{"id":23027,"date":"2020-10-08T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=23027"},"modified":"2020-10-08T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:04:16","slug":"rt-mattwhitmantmbh-nudity-in-the-lord-of-the-rings-is-a-terrible-idea-im-not-making-a-moral-case-here-im-making-a-tonal-argument-this-isnt-the-kind-of-story-that-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=23027","title":{"rendered":"RT @MattWhitmanTMBH: Nudity in The Lord of the Rings is a terrible idea. I\u2019m not making a moral case here, I\u2019m making a tonal argument. This isn\u2019t the kind of story that needs more sex and grit, there are other stories where that works, but Middle Earth trades on something more accessible to all. https:\/\/t.co\/W4OffZvCHz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nudity in The Lord of the Rings is a terrible idea.  I\u2019m not making a moral case here, I\u2019m making a tonal argument. This isn\u2019t the kind of story that needs more sex and grit, there are other stories where that works, but Middle Earth trades on something more accessible to all. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4OffZvCHz\">https:\/\/t.co\/W4OffZvCHz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Whitman (@MattWhitmanTMBH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWhitmanTMBH\/status\/1312995920267546624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>October 08, 2020 at 11:04AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nudity in The Lord of the Rings is a terrible idea. I\u2019m not making a moral case here, I\u2019m making a tonal argument. This isn\u2019t the kind of story that needs more sex and grit, there are other stories where that works, but Middle Earth trades on something more accessible to all. https:\/\/t.co\/W4OffZvCHz &mdash; Matt &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=23027\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RT @MattWhitmanTMBH: Nudity in The Lord of the Rings is a terrible idea. I\u2019m not making a moral case here, I\u2019m making a tonal argument. This isn\u2019t the kind of story that needs more sex and grit, there are other stories where that works, but Middle Earth trades on something more accessible to all. https:\/\/t.co\/W4OffZvCHz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-23027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23028,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23027\/revisions\/23028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23027"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=23027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}