{"id":39937,"date":"2010-10-29T13:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=39937"},"modified":"2010-10-29T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:27:04","slug":"hobbiton-set-at-matamata-to-remain-permanent-tourist-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/10\/29\/39937-hobbiton-set-at-matamata-to-remain-permanent-tourist-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbiton Set At Matamata To Remain Permanent Tourist Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35474\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/03\/03\/35473-hobbiton-set-visit-report\/dsc00312\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35474 no-lazyload\" title=\"Hobbiton 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC00312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/waikato-times\/news\/4289149\/New-Hobbiton-set-there-to-stay\" target=\"_blank\">stuff.co.nz<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0Brett Hodge, owner of Matamata Post and Rails, which has supplied the timber for The Hobbit duology since construction began in February, told the Waikato Times that Sir Peter Jackson&#8217;s company Three Foot Six was building the home of the Hobbits to last.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What they did last time was build a temporary set, but now it&#8217;s a permanent set.<\/p>\n<p>It will begin a perpetual celebration around the party tree, on the set, where The Fellowship of the Ring began with Bilbo&#8217;s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Dragon, where the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield awaits Bilbo Baggins ahead of their quest, will include a real thatched roof and the nearby Bywater bridge, made from polystyrene blocks resembling stone for The Lord of the Rings, is being rebuilt in permanent stone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more of the article over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/waikato-times\/news\/4289149\/New-Hobbiton-set-there-to-stay\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>stuff.co.nz<\/strong><\/a> that ends with quotes from none other than members from our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>message boards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From stuff.co.nz:\u00a0Brett Hodge, owner of Matamata Post and Rails, which has supplied the timber for The Hobbit duology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,333,68,99,74,496,148,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-production-locations","category-lotr-production","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ao9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}