{"id":17813,"date":"2020-01-16T19:56:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=17813"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:57:18","slug":"a-portrait-i-wish-i-had-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=17813","title":{"rendered":"A portrait I wish I had shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/01\/17\/obituaries\/16xp-tolkien-image1\/16xp-tolkien-image1-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Christopher Tolkien. New York Times photo by Josh Dolgin. <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/01\/17\/obituaries\/16xp-tolkien-image1\/16xp-tolkien-image1-superJumbo.jpg\">Click for high-resolution version<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope I am not inviting copyright trouble here. The extraordinary photo above is linked to a New York Times URL; I have not downloaded a copy of it. The photo accompanies the New York Times&#8217; obituary for Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/16\/books\/christopher-tolkien-dead.html\">Christopher Tolkien, Keeper of His Father\u2019s Legacy, Dies at 95<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You all know who Christopher Tolkien was. There is nothing that I need to add. But as lovers of literature <em>and<\/em> photography, how can we not ask a question: Why is it that people who change the world with their books always <em>look<\/em> so amazing? It was the same with Christopher Tolkien&#8217;s father, J.R.R. Tolkien, who was always photographed in tweeds, and often in front of a fireplace or bookcase.<\/p>\n<p>What a gift, to have lived such lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Tolkien. New York Times photo by Josh Dolgin. Click for high-resolution version. I hope I am not inviting copyright trouble here. The extraordinary photo above is linked to a New York Times URL; I have not downloaded a copy of it. The photo accompanies the New York Times&#8217; obituary for Christopher Tolkien, son of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=17813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A portrait I wish I had shot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17813"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17813\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}