{"id":3996,"date":"2004-10-16T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/10\/16\/ring-of-truth-hobbit-sean-astin-tells-all-in-new-memoir\/"},"modified":"2004-10-16T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T15:11:27","slug":"ring-of-truth-hobbit-sean-astin-tells-all-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2004\/10\/16\/3996-ring-of-truth-hobbit-sean-astin-tells-all-in-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring of truth: Hobbit Sean Astin tells all in new memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontSA.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Five minutes after arriving in Boston, Sean Astin &#8211; &#8220;Sam&#8221; in the blockbuster &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movie trilogy &#8211; launches a quest. He wants a bite to eat. Merrily ditching his handlers, Astin, 33, strolls down Land Boulevard, finds a restaurant and sweet-talks the staff into making a pre-lunchtime snack. The upbeat actor is decidedly more svelte than the onscreen hobbit, but Astin&#8217;s wool sweater, sturdy shoes and jaunty cap could have been tailored in the Shire. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/theedge.bostonherald.com\/bookNews\/view.bg?articleid=49317\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five minutes after arriving in Boston, Sean Astin &#8211; &#8220;Sam&#8221; in the blockbuster &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movie&#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_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3996","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-12s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}