{"id":32253,"date":"2009-05-23T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32253"},"modified":"2009-05-23T11:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T16:00:19","slug":"american-writers-revel-in-lord-of-the-rings-scenery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/05\/23\/32253-american-writers-revel-in-lord-of-the-rings-scenery\/","title":{"rendered":"American writers revel in Lord of the Rings scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Three senior writers from the New Yorker, who were guests at last weekend&#8217;s Auckland Writers &#038; Readers Festival, have been raving about New Zealand in blogs on the magazine&#8217;s website. Chief political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg, who posted a blog yesterday from &#8220;Middle-earth&#8221; (Queenstown), where he is visiting with colleagues Judith Thurman and Rhonda Sherman, said although he was no fan of the Lord of the Rings books, &#8220;we find ourselves in a Hobbity paradise&#8221;. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm%3Fc_id=1%26objectid=10574012\">American writers revel in Lord of the Rings scenery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three senior writers from the New Yorker, who were guests at last weekend&#8217;s Auckland Writers &#038; Readers Festival,&#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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253","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=32253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}