{"id":3736,"date":"2004-11-30T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/11\/30\/saved-from-poor-planning-by-hobbitesque-natives-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:16:21","slug":"saved-from-poor-planning-by-hobbitesque-natives-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/11\/30\/3736-saved-from-poor-planning-by-hobbitesque-natives-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved from poor planning by Hobbitesque natives in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/flag-nz.gif\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> <b>April Orcutt<\/b> writes: In New Zealand, place names drip from J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s fountain pen &#8212; Elfin Bay, Lake Truth, Mount Aspiring, Demon Trail, The Tower &#8212; and &#8220;Lord-of-the-Rings&#8221; fans pilgrimage to sets for Middle-Earth. But the fans don&#8217;t know what I know: Hobbits really do live in New Zealand. And they saved my life. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/11\/28\/CMGIJ7P0M01.DTL\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Orcutt writes: In New Zealand, place names drip from J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s fountain pen &#8212; Elfin Bay, Lake&#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":[20,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_zealand","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-Yg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}