{"id":43347,"date":"2011-04-09T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=43347"},"modified":"2011-04-09T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T15:27:59","slug":"did-gimli-cause-jacksons-ulcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/04\/09\/43347-did-gimli-cause-jacksons-ulcer\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Gimli cause Jackson&#8217;s ulcer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/film\/4865412\/Did-Gimli-cause-Jacksons-ulcer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43348 no-lazyload\" style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 10px;border: 0px solid #fff !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4866113-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4866113-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4866113.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>Veteran actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) believes his offer to make an appearance in The Hobbit may have caused Peter Jackson&#8217;s stomach ulcer.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> star said he initially told Jackson he wouldn&#8217;t be returning to Middle Earth as the dwarf Gimli, but later had a change of heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other day when I realised it was about to start a little shiver of regret went through me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I called Peter Jackson&#8217;s assistant and said, &#8216;If there was anything or even just an excuse to come down do let me know&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PJ promptly collapsed and was admitted to hospital, I never heard back.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/film\/4865412\/Did-Gimli-cause-Jacksons-ulcer\">Read More<\/a>]<em> (Thank to Owain for the heads up)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) believes his offer to make an appearance in The Hobbit may have caused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":43348,"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":[16,497,14,51,10,5,74,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-conventions","category-production-directors","category-events","category-rhysdavies","category-lotr-cast-news","category-lotr-movies","category-jackson","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/4866113.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bh9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}