{"id":42092,"date":"2011-02-06T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=42092"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T13:13:11","slug":"will-there-be-talking-animals-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/02\/06\/42092-will-there-be-talking-animals-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be talking animals in The Hobbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Guillermo del Toro, when he was the director, indicated that he will remain true to the text and that animals will talk in the movies:\u00a0<em>\u201cI think it should be done exactly as in the book- the \u201ctalking beast\u201d motif has to exist already to allow for that great character that is Smaug. It is far more jarring to have a linear movie and then \u2013 out of the blue \u2013 a talking Dragon.\u201d <\/em>It\u2019s reasonable to expect PJ was in line with this and will also have the animals talk\/communicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guillermo del Toro, when he was the director, indicated that he will remain true to the text and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[1421,1417,1420,1423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-director-qa","category-hobbit-movie-faq","category-production-qa","category-story-changes-qa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-aWU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}