{"id":40837,"date":"2010-11-29T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=40837"},"modified":"2010-11-29T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T02:28:17","slug":"hobbit-casting-agent-fired-over-racism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/11\/29\/40837-hobbit-casting-agent-fired-over-racism-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit casting agent fired over racism row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">A casting agent for Wellington producer Sir Peter Jackson&#8217;s planned film adaptations of The Hobbit has been dismissed after placing newspaper advertisements seeking extras with &#8220;light skin tones&#8221;. A spokesman for Wingnut Films, Sir Peter&#8217;s production company, told Agence France-Presse the unnamed agent was not directed by the company to make such restrictions. &#8220;No such instructions were given,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;The crew member in question took it upon themselves to do that and it&#8217;s not something we instructed or condoned&#8221;. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10691068\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A casting agent for Wellington producer Sir Peter Jackson&#8217;s planned film adaptations of The Hobbit has been dismissed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,74,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aCF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837","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=40837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}