{"id":1020,"date":"2006-10-17T19:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T00:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/10\/17\/a-tough-hobbit-to-start\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T00:41:45","slug":"a-tough-hobbit-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/10\/17\/1020-a-tough-hobbit-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A tough &#8216;Hobbit&#8217; to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <b>Variety<\/b>: MGM&#8217;s recent announcement that it intended to release &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; and, hopefully, get Peter Jackson to direct it, caused major buzz in Hollywood. It also caused a frenzy among Jackson fans, who have been lobbying via petition on the fansite TheOneRing.net for Jackson to tackle the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; prequel ASAP. The petition tallied nearly 50,000 signatures and was submitted to MGM and New Line, which share film rights to &#8220;The Hobbit.&#8221; (MGM owns distribution rights; New Line owns the rights to actually make the movie.) [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/8\/1161131976\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Variety: MGM&#8217;s recent announcement that it intended to release &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221; and, hopefully, get Peter Jackson to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}