{"id":15842,"date":"2026-10-02T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=15842"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:35:39","slug":"forum-on-tolkien-and-the-stained-imagination-today-at-330pm-ruane-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/forum-on-tolkien-and-the-stained-imagination-today-at-330pm-ruane-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum on Tolkien and the Stained Imagination: Today at 3:30pm Ruane 105"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is the human attachment to the beauty and violence of the world a ladder to the divine or a descent into chaos? Join us at the forum for a conversation with philosopher David O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-1024x576.png\" alt=\"David O&apos;Connor at the Humanities Forum.\" class=\"wp-image-15843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-1568x882.png 1568w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09-1320x743.png 1320w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/Untitled-September-25-2026-at-10.58.09.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the human attachment to the beauty and violence of the world a ladder to the divine or a descent into chaos? Join us at the forum for a conversation with philosopher David O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15844,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions\/15844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}