{"id":23391,"date":"1999-09-24T13:35:40","date_gmt":"1999-09-24T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/09\/24\/tolkien-and-pj-guides\/"},"modified":"1999-09-24T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"1999-09-24T18:35:40","slug":"tolkien-and-pj-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/1999\/09\/24\/23391-tolkien-and-pj-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolkien and PJ, guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From: <b>Scott I<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is the reply and the question from ian Mckellen. <\/p>\n<p>Hello, Sir McKellen (or is it McKellen the Grey)?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m a big fan of the Lord of the Rings( not big in stature, just enthusiasm!) and was just wondering:<\/p>\n<p>Will the Gandalf character you portray in the film be YOUR Gandalf or  one perceived by another person, e.g Peter Jackson?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your time,<br \/>\n<br \/>Scott I,<br \/>\n<br \/>Doncaster &#8211; England<\/p>\n<p><i>dear scott i<\/p>\n<p>u ask a simple question that is not easily answered. let&#8217;s say for now that tolkein and jackson will be my guides<\/p>\n<p>best wishes ian mckellen<\/i><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Scott I This is the reply and the question from ian Mckellen. Hello, Sir McKellen (or is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23391","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-65h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}