{"id":1619,"date":"2006-03-20T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T23:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/20\/gollum-gosh-the-hills-are-alive-with-hobbits\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T22:17:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T03:17:12","slug":"gollum-gosh-the-hills-are-alive-with-hobbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/03\/20\/1619-gollum-gosh-the-hills-are-alive-with-hobbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Gollum gosh, the hills are alive with hobbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">When Middle Earth comes to a stage in Toronto this week for the world premiere of a musical version of The Lord of the Rings, diehard fans of the trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien could be forgiven for feeling sceptical. It&#8217;s one thing to turn one of the most popular stories of our time into an epic film. It&#8217;s quite another to bring it to the stage as a musical &#8211; with actors on three storey-tall stilts, an Elvish chorus, a set that morphs from woods to battlements to a volcano and a Gollum who sings. [<a target=\"NEW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/arts\/gollum-gosh-the-hills-are-alive-with-hobbits\/2006\/03\/20\/1142703288586.html\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Middle Earth comes to a stage in Toronto this week for the world premiere of a musical&#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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[14,239,130,69,240,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-lotr-stage","category-old-main-news","category-events-premieres","category-stage","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}