{"id":22333,"date":"1999-05-04T23:26:24","date_gmt":"1999-05-05T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/05\/04\/sean-connery-was-here-maybe\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T01:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T06:43:23","slug":"sean-connery-was-here-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/05\/04\/22333-sean-connery-was-here-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Connery was here, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Wellington<\/strong> &#8211; Rumours linking British actor Sean Connery with Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Lord Of The Rings&#8217; trilogy are gathering momentum in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun, where the film-maker lives. First there was speculation the Connery and Kiwi actor Sam Neill (&#8216;Jurassic Park&#8217;) were interested in playing the role of Gandalf the wizard. Now rumours are circulating that Connery has bought a house in Seatoun, where Neill is said to own a property. Locals are believed to have spotted Connery at the Chocolate Fish Cafe in Karaka Bay.<\/p>\n<p>A cardboard cutout of the star has graced one of the cafe&#8217;s seats since Tuesday. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen him myself,&#8221; said manager Penny Pennington, &#8220;but I have people who swear they have seen him here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, with stories like this around, I don&#8217;t need to make anything up. People&#8217;s imaginations are running rife down there. Or maybe he really DID go to the Chocolate Fish Cafe. (In case that sounds revolting, chocolate fish are a popular thing here, they&#8217;re chococlate-covered marshmallow fish.)<br \/>\n(You didn&#8217;t need to know that&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington &#8211; Rumours linking British actor Sean Connery with Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8216;Lord Of The Rings&#8217; trilogy are gathering&#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":[10,5,130,95,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-old-main-news","category-lotrrumours","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333","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=22333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}