{"id":295,"date":"2014-08-02T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=295"},"modified":"2014-08-02T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T23:18:09","slug":"tv-vin-diesel-as-the-almighty-melkor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"TV &#8211; Vin Diesel as the Almighty Melkor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other night Vin Diesel was making his rounds to promote <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> (<a title=\"Review \u2013 #Guardians of the Galaxy\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=145\">you can see my review here!<\/a>) I am sure some of you know that I love me some Vin Diesel so when I heard he was going to appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon I had to watch. I knew he had a nerdy side but I had no idea he played D&amp;D! \u00a0Head on over and <a title=\"Vin Diesel - Melkor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-tonight-show\/segments\/9456\" target=\"_blank\">watch him<\/a> talk about his character Melkor and where if got the name. If you need a hint here is a picture I found!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1165596484melkor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1165596484melkor-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Melkor King of the Dark Lord\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1165596484melkor-227x300.jpg 227w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1165596484melkor-174x230.jpg 174w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1165596484melkor.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melkor &#8211; King of the Dark Lord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am sure Vin had no idea who he named his character after. The first Dark Lord of Middle -Earth is pretty ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Nerds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other night Vin Diesel was making his rounds to promote Guardians of the Galaxy (you can see my review here!) I am sure some of you know that I love me some Vin Diesel so when I heard he was going to appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurb","category-entertainment","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}