{"id":722,"date":"2026-07-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=722"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:00:00","slug":"127-life-expectancy-of-hobbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"127- Life Expectancy of Hobbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-722-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/120518299\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2Fe5504167-98a6-a32b-7608-ad411075fd3b.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/120518299\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2Fe5504167-98a6-a32b-7608-ad411075fd3b.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/120518299\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-25%2Fe5504167-98a6-a32b-7608-ad411075fd3b.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>A bit of a silly topic today. What is the average life expectancy of hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien&#039;s legendarium? Along the way, we will learn something about current and historic human life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<p>TBA<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sound Effect by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/freesound_community-46691455\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=music&amp;utm_content=84943\">freesound_community<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/sound-effects\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=music&amp;utm_content=84943\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a silly topic today. What is the average life expectancy of hobbits in J. R. R. Tolkien&#039;s legendarium? Along the way, we will learn something about current and historic human life expectancy. Sources for this episode: TBA Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}