{"id":20840,"date":"2000-06-14T19:27:31","date_gmt":"2000-06-15T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/06\/14\/are-you-a-gormenghast-fan-yet\/"},"modified":"2000-06-14T19:27:31","modified_gmt":"2000-06-15T00:27:31","slug":"are-you-a-gormenghast-fan-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/06\/14\/20840-are-you-a-gormenghast-fan-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Gormenghast fan yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">This is more of a literary note, but I thought I&#8217;d alert you fantasy fans to a BBC series currently screening in the States which ought to fulfil our appetite for good onscreen fantasy while we wait for LOTR to start&#8230; Mervyn Peake&#8217;s &#8216;Gormenghast&#8217; books are rich, ornate, enthralling fantasy &#8211; hard to read, but wow, this BBC production sounds like it&#8217;ll bring Peake&#8217;s masterpiece wonderfully alive. I can&#8217;t wait til it gets to NZ! I might even be forced to buy a TV!Check it out <a HREF=\"http:\/\/britishtv.about.com\/tvradio\/britishtv\/library\/weekly\/aa060500a.htm\"> here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oh yeah. It&#8217;s got Christopher Lee (Our Saruman) in it, no doubt doing something deliciously EVIL&#8230;.Nope, I&#8217;ve been informed I&#8217;m wrong. Lee gets to play a good guy. How often does that happen?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is more of a literary note, but I thought I&#8217;d alert you fantasy fans to a BBC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20840","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-5q8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}