{"id":17652,"date":"2001-10-07T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2001-10-08T00:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/10\/07\/learning-to-pick-up-a-good-hobbit\/"},"modified":"2001-10-07T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2001-10-08T00:57:22","slug":"learning-to-pick-up-a-good-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/10\/07\/17652-learning-to-pick-up-a-good-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to pick up a good hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontBB.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Other people&#8217;s routines can often seem strange. For a year and a half Billy Boyd lived in a rented home in near Wellington, New Zealand. At 4.30 most mornings a car would pick him up to take him to a nearby film set. By dawn the 33-year-old Scots actor, still half asleep, would be in a make-up van being transformed into Pippin, a 3ft 6in hobbit in J R R Tolkien&#8217;s Lord of the Rings. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sunday-times.co.uk\/news\/pages\/sti\/2001\/10\/07\/stiecoeco01006.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other people&#8217;s routines can often seem strange. For a year and a half Billy Boyd lived in a&#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-17652","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-4AI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652","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=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}