{"id":27038,"date":"2001-12-11T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2001-12-11T20:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/11\/nz-reaction-to-premiere-night\/"},"modified":"2001-12-11T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2001-12-11T20:52:39","slug":"nz-reaction-to-premiere-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2001\/12\/11\/27038-nz-reaction-to-premiere-night\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ reaction to Premiere Night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">News from Elliot: &#8220;The Evening Post ran a story on page 3 last night with photo about a 2m tall &#8216;Thank You&#8217; card from the people of Wellington to Peter Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>This card is circulating around the Wellington Region and says &#8216;Thanks Peter, you made a difference to our city.  From your fellow Wellingtonians&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone can sign the card, which will be presented to Jackson next week. The card will be at the Upper Hutt Visitor Information Centre today, Hutt City Council&#8217;s customer service centre Thursday, Kapiti Coast District Council Friday and Wellington Central Library Saturday and Sunday.  It will be at Meridian Energy&#8217;s head office December 17, Porirua&#8217;s Pataka Musuem December 18 and Westpac Trust St James Theatre &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8217; display on December 19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For myself I can report that yesterday NZ really went LOTR crazy &#8211; it was in all the news all the time. Not just reports on the premiere, but a total blitz of Rings news on all media. I took part in a Tolkienfest at Auckland&#8217;s central public library, and it was absolutely chocker (full) of people &#8211; and what a varied group of people too.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of interviews in yesterday&#8217;s news asked people at the London premiere &#8216;Do you think the LOTR films will bring tourists to NZ?&#8217; The answer was yes, which should be good news for our <a href=\"http:\/\/etravelgate.com\/movietours\" target=new>Movietours<\/a>   idea.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News from Elliot: &#8220;The Evening Post ran a story on page 3 last night with photo about a&#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_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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-726","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038","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=27038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}