{"id":20851,"date":"2000-06-13T04:07:02","date_gmt":"2000-06-13T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/06\/13\/want-to-see-middle-earth-before-its-world-famous\/"},"modified":"2000-06-13T04:07:02","modified_gmt":"2000-06-13T09:07:02","slug":"want-to-see-middle-earth-before-its-world-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/06\/13\/20851-want-to-see-middle-earth-before-its-world-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to see Middle-earth BEFORE it&#8217;s world-famous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">This is only slightly LOTR-related, but I get enough emails every day asking &#8216;how do I get to be an extra in the film?&#8217; to which the answer has to be &#8216;First, be in New Zealand&#8230;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s never going to be any easier: Scoop newsagency reported today that the Government here plans to double the number of visas granted to young people wanting a working holiday here.<\/p>\n<p>So, getting here and staying here is only the first step, but it&#8217;s the kinda crucial one. And you could find worse ways to spend a few months if you&#8217;re not committed to being anywhere else for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t email me about it, contact your nearest NZ consulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is only slightly LOTR-related, but I get enough emails every day asking &#8216;how do I get to&#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-20851","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-5qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851","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=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}