{"id":1769,"date":"2006-01-31T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T23:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/01\/31\/gambling-on-gollum\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:48:13","slug":"gambling-on-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/01\/31\/1769-gambling-on-gollum\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling on Gollum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The public gets its first look at The Lord of the Rings musical this week. That&#8217;s exciting for Tolkien fans, but nerve-wracking for the show&#8217;s creative team, who have their reputations &#8212; and a lot of their money &#8212; on the line According to the calendar, opening night for the most ambitious theatre project in history &#8212; the $27-million production of J. R. R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings &#8212; is still seven weeks away. But for the show&#8217;s producers, cast and creative team, the March 23 world premiere at Toronto&#8217;s Princess of Wales Theatre is only a distant focus of attention. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060131.wxlord31\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/\" target=\"NEW\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public gets its first look at The Lord of the Rings musical this week. That&#8217;s exciting for&#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":[239,130,240,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-stage","category-old-main-news","category-stage","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}