{"id":32968,"date":"2009-08-01T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32968"},"modified":"2009-08-01T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:20:53","slug":"gdt-picks-up-the-pen-for-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/08\/01\/32968-gdt-picks-up-the-pen-for-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"GDT picks up the pen for NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The multitasking, multimedia storyteller and filmmaker <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> and author and co-writer with GDT on &#8220;The Strain,&#8221; <strong>Chuck Hogan<\/strong>, have delivered to New York Times readers an op-ed contribution about &#8220;Why Vampires Never Die.&#8221; <strong>Ringers Rock<\/strong> brought it to our attention on TORn&#8217;s message boards and we wanted to share it with everybody.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It starts: &#8220;TONIGHT, you or someone you love will likely be visited by a vampire \u2014 on cable television or the big screen, or in the bookstore. Our own novel describes a modern-day epidemic that spreads across New York City.&#8221;  Peter Jackson tells us del Toro and his writing team are only weeks away from delivering the first draft of the first &#8220;Hobbit&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/31\/opinion\/31deltoro.html?_r=2&#038;em\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multitasking, multimedia storyteller and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and author and co-writer with GDT on &#8220;The Strain,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[435,4],"tags":[576,2865],"class_list":["post-32968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-hobbit-movie","tag-chuck-hogan","tag-guillermo-del-toro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8zK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32968","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}