{"id":3856,"date":"2004-11-05T18:55:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/11\/05\/rings-cast-duped-by-obsessed-admirers\/"},"modified":"2004-11-05T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-06T00:55:29","slug":"rings-cast-duped-by-obsessed-admirers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/11\/05\/3856-rings-cast-duped-by-obsessed-admirers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rings&#8217; cast duped by obsessed admirers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Obsessed Lord of the Rings fans, a woman posing as a man, and a fake charity &#8211; just when you thought the sideshows surrounding the movie trilogy could not get stranger, they become truly weird. New Zealand actors and star Sean Astin were unwittingly drawn into a bizarre con based around the LOTR and the eccentric online world it spawned. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3607646&#038;thesection=news&#038;thesubsection=general\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.turondo.com\/\" TARGET=NEW>Order &#8220;When A Fan Hits The Sh**&#8221; from turondo.com today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obsessed Lord of the Rings fans, a woman posing as a man, and a fake charity &#8211; just&#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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-10c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}