{"id":51408,"date":"2011-12-15T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?page_id=51408"},"modified":"2014-01-12T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:13:53","slug":"john-bell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/john-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">John began acting when he was just seven. In 2007, at age 9, he won a Blue Peter competition for the chance to appear in an episode of series 3 of\u00a0Doctor Who. Since then, his acting career has included roles in feature films &#8220;A Shine of Rainbows,&#8221; &#8220;Wrath of the Titans&#8221; and &#8220;Battleship,&#8221; and regular TV roles playing Anthony Weaver in &#8220;Life of Riley&#8221; and Toby in &#8220;Tracy Beaker Returns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John was cast as Bain, son of Bard the Bowman, and will appear in both the 2nd and third movies of the Hobbit trilogy. He <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mymiddleearth.com\/2012\/07\/03\/exclusive-qa-with-hobbit-actor-john-bell\/\">describes his character<\/a> as: \u201ca young boy ready to do battle when needs be and to protect his father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Trivia<\/strong> <\/span>(from an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidzworld.com\/article\/25374-john-bell-qanda\">kidzworld.com<\/a>, when John was 13, about his role in &#8220;A Shine of Rainbows&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Favorite color: Red<br \/>\nFavorite animal: Panda bears<br \/>\nFavorite band: Iron Maiden<br \/>\nFavorite movie: Up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John began acting when he was just seven. In 2007, at age 9, he won a Blue Peter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55143,"parent":40097,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-cast.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51408","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1tLoH-dna","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86210,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51408\/revisions\/86210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}