{"id":7277,"date":"2010-02-24T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:15:59","slug":"shamus-plays-lotro-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7277","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays LOTRO: Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Boromir got turned into an <a href=\"?p=814\">Orcish pincushion<\/a>, the rest of the party didn&#8217;t really have time to give him a proper burial. In their haste, the best they could do was put him gently into a boat, arrange the weapons of his foes around him, and send him downriver while Legolas and Aragon sang him about four pages worth of poetic tribute.  <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what a half-assed funeral looks like in Middle-Earth. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/7203-Shamus-Plays-LOTRO-Part-6\">Boromir was lucky they didn&#8217;t have time to give him a &#8220;proper&#8221; funeral.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Boromir got turned into an Orcish pincushion, the rest of the party didn&#8217;t really have time to give him a proper burial. In their haste, the best they could do was put him gently into a boat, arrange the weapons of his foes around him, and send him downriver while Legolas and Aragon sang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}