{"id":1151,"date":"2020-07-27T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:59:40","slug":"for-lord-of-the-rings-fans-are-orcs-inherently-evil-or-are-there-ever-any-good-orcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"For Lord of the Rings Fans: Are Orcs inherently evil? Or &#8211; Are there ever any good Orcs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263ec2a308b200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orc 1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263ec2a308b200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263ec2a308b200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Orc 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A six minute video. My idea of cool.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8q4Tv-P7s4\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20264e2eac5c2200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orc 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20264e2eac5c2200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20264e2eac5c2200d-250wi\" style=\"width: 240px;\" title=\"Orc 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9589104200b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Orc 3\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9589104200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e9589104200b-320wi\" style=\"width: 320px;\" title=\"Orc 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six minute video. My idea of cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}