{"id":22725,"date":"2002-01-10T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2002-01-11T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/01\/10\/more-lotr-tourists-in-nz\/"},"modified":"2002-01-10T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2002-01-11T01:39:14","slug":"more-lotr-tourists-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/01\/10\/22725-more-lotr-tourists-in-nz\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8216;LOTR&#8217; tourists in NZ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Looks like there&#8217;s a lot of people hunting for Hobbiton. This letter came in from one of our correspondents who lives on a farm near the &#8216;Hobbiton&#8217; farm, in Matamata.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in the Matamata Information Office today for just 20 mins and during that time 4 groups of people came in asking where to see the Hobbiton village!!!  One English couple had driven all the way from Auckland especially and &#8216;wasted&#8217; a day of their travel time! Another Japanese girl had caught a bus from Rotorua and had no idea what to do when told she couldn&#8217;t go to the farm!! (I&#8217;ve no idea how she was going to get there!!) Another group were visitors from UK, and then some Kiwis. Wow!!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that was because of the news item on tv last night about Hobbiton sign being stolen. But the demand is there and people [in Matamata] have no idea of the enormity of this whole thing!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they could make it easier on themselves and join other fans in one of Red Carpet&#8217;s coach tours to the locations&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/etravelgate.com\/movietours\" target=new>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like there&#8217;s a lot of people hunting for Hobbiton. This letter came in from one of our&#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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5Ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725","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=22725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}