{"id":3694,"date":"2012-09-22T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2012-09-22T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T16:08:36","slug":"greed-by-osmosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/09\/22\/greed-by-osmosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed by osmosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/smaug-gold.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3695 lazyload\" title=\"smaug-gold\" data-src=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/smaug-gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"287\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/smaug-gold.jpg 389w, http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-content\/uploads\/smaug-gold-300x221.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 389px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 389\/287;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Tolkien and Lewis wrote stories where a powerful lust for treasure is transferred from dragons to people via physical contact.<\/p>\n<p>In The Hobbit, even after Smaug is dead, his treasure still has an aura about it that &#8220;rubs off&#8221; on the dwarves. They are already disposed to love beautiful gold things, but the dragon&#8217;s recent presence amplifies their desire to hoard it. Thorin in particular becomes very grumpy and protective &#8211; unwilling to make a deal with the neighboring elves or men.<\/p>\n<p>In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Eustace discovers an old dragon&#8217;s treasure stash and takes a nap upon the pile. In his sleep he is actually transformed into a dragon, such was it cursed. It is hinted that the previous dragon was also a man who suffered such a fate.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that in both their minds, greed has an unhealthy effect both on the hoarder and the observer. Sounds like imitative desire to me &#8211; which has been proven to often seem &#8220;magical&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Tolkien and Lewis wrote stories where a powerful lust for treasure is transferred from dragons to people via physical contact. In The Hobbit, even after Smaug is dead, his treasure still has an aura about it that &#8220;rubs off&#8221; on the dwarves. They are already disposed to love beautiful gold things, but the dragon&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2012\/09\/22\/greed-by-osmosis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greed by osmosis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}