{"id":28,"date":"2008-08-26T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/26\/tolkien-and-his-car\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T08:43:00","slug":"tolkien-and-his-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/tolkien-and-his-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and His Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There was the unforgettable occasion in 1932 when Tolkien bought his first car, a Morris Cowley that was nicknamed &#8216;Jo&#8217;&#8230;After learning to drive he took the entire family by car to visit his brother Hilary&#8230;At various times during the journey &#8216;Jo&#8217; sustained two punctures and knocked down part of a dry-stone wall near Chipping Norton, with the result that Edith refused to travel in the car again until some months later &#8211; not entirely without justification, for Tolkien&#8217;s driving was daring rather than skilful. when accelerating headlong across a busy main road in Oxford in order to get into a side-street, he would ignore all other vehicles and cry &#8216;<em>Charge &#8217;em and they scatter!&#8217; &#8211; <\/em>and scatter they did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, <em>by Humphrey Carpenter, <\/em>162.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was the unforgettable occasion in 1932 when Tolkien bought his first car, a Morris Cowley that was nicknamed &#8216;Jo&#8217;&#8230;After learning to drive he took the entire family by car to visit his brother Hilary&#8230;At various times during the journey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/08\/tolkien-and-his-car\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jrr-tolkien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}