{"id":1749,"date":"2024-10-18T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2024-10-18T08:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T23:53:07","slug":"oh-my-gosh-ash-is-bilbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/10\/18\/oh-my-gosh-ash-is-bilbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh my gosh… Ash is Bilbo."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, I’m a doofus. As many times as I have watched Alien and LOTR and having seen the name Ian Holm many times, I never made the connection between the creepy, sociopathic Ash and the jovial, lovable Bilbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m a doofus. As many times as I have watched Alien and LOTR and having seen the name Ian Holm many times, I never made the connection between the creepy, sociopathic Ash and the jovial, lovable Bilbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[199,200],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-alien","tag-lotr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1792,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/alien-pixel-animations\/","url_meta":{"origin":1749,"position":0},"title":"Alien pixel animations","date":"2024-10-29","format":false,"excerpt":"I found these on Pinterest. 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