{"id":21631,"date":"1999-12-13T10:26:05","date_gmt":"1999-12-13T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/12\/13\/media-watch-otago-daily-times-2\/"},"modified":"1999-12-13T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"1999-12-13T16:26:05","slug":"media-watch-otago-daily-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/12\/13\/21631-media-watch-otago-daily-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Watch: Otago Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www2.odt.co.nz\/cgi-bin\/getitem?date=10Dec1999&#038;object=1209331372&#038;type=html\">Otogo Daily Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hobbits taking Christmas off<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>By Kerry Williamson<\/p>\n<p>Even hobbits take a holiday over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Filming of the $360 million Lord of the Rings movie trilogy &#8211; based on the novels by J. R. R Tolkien and directed by Wellington&#8217;s Peter Jackson &#8211; has been taking place in and around Queenstown during the past month.<\/p>\n<p>However, filming will break next week for Christmas and will not continue at the Southern Lakes until the middle of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Film crews spent much of this week shooting scenes near Glenorchy. Scenes have also been shot near Te Anau, Tarras and Queenstown.<\/p>\n<p>Publicist Claire Raskind said filming had gone well, despite the setbacks suffered when several sets were washed away during last month&#8217;s record rainfall and flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Good weather had allowed crews to catch up on time lost during the floods, she said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 400 people have been employed by the Lord of the Rings producers since filming began in Wellington several months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lead actors Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, Sean Bean and Viggo Mortenson have all spent time in the Southern Lakes during filming.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Otogo Daily Times Hobbits taking Christmas off By Kerry Williamson Even hobbits take a holiday over Christmas&#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-21631","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-5CT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631","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=21631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}