{"id":216,"date":"2022-12-16T15:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/?p=216"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T09:46:33","slug":"tolkien-and-science-at-oxford-university-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/2022\/12\/16\/tolkien-and-science-at-oxford-university-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and science at Oxford University Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Members of the Symbiosis network from the University of Birmingham and Oxford University Museum of Natural History have been collaborating on a pair of public engagement events looking at connections between the fantasy fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and modern palaeontology, including recreating Tolkien&#8217;s 1938 lecture on dragons for the first time. To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/science-storytelling-and-prehistory\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/science-storytelling-and-prehistory\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Symbiosis network from the University of Birmingham and Oxford University Museum of Natural History have been collaborating on a pair of public engagement events looking at connections between the fantasy fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and modern palaeontology, including recreating Tolkien&#8217;s 1938 lecture on dragons for the first time. To read more, click &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/2022\/12\/16\/tolkien-and-science-at-oxford-university-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tolkien and science at Oxford University Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/symbiosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}