{"id":1569,"date":"2006-03-29T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/29\/sean-astin-plans-moves-into-meerkat-manor\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T00:37:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:37:41","slug":"sean-astin-plans-moves-into-meerkat-manor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/29\/1569-sean-astin-plans-moves-into-meerkat-manor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin Plans Moves into &#8216;Meerkat Manor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontSA.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\" \/> SILVER SPRING, Md., March 29 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Best known for playing &#8220;Sam&#8221; in the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, and &#8220;Lynn McGill&#8221; in &#8220;24&#8221; Sean Astin has embodied everything from loyalty and bravery to arrogance and redemption. Now, Astin tries to embody two new character traits &#8212; small and furry &#8212; as he lends his considerable talents to narrate MEERKAT MANOR, Animal Planet&#8217;s new 13-part docu-drama that&#8217;s All My Children meets Wild Kingdom. With all the love, squabbling, self-sacrifice and rivalry found in any family, a group of Meerkats struggles to survive in Africa&#8217;s Kalahari Desert. MEERKAT MANOR premieres Friday, June 9, at 8 PM. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/060329\/dcw044.html?.v=72\">More<\/a>]<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILVER SPRING, Md., March 29 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Best known for playing &#8220;Sam&#8221; in the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221;&#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":[14,10,5,130,59,87,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-old-main-news","category-astin","category-events-television","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}