{"id":44606,"date":"2011-05-23T06:08:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=44606"},"modified":"2011-05-23T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:08:05","slug":"spider-and-rusty-join-the-hobbits-four-footed-cast-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/23\/44606-spider-and-rusty-join-the-hobbits-four-footed-cast-members\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spider and Rusty&#8221; Join The Hobbit&#8217;s Four-footed Cast Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-44607\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/05\/23\/44606-spider-and-rusty-join-the-hobbits-four-footed-cast-members\/spiderandrusty\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44607 alignright no-lazyload\" title=\"SpiderAndRusty\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SpiderAndRusty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>Remember how a few months back TORn reported that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/02\/04\/42035-billy-goat-geordie-lands-part-in-hobbit-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geordie the Billy Goat<\/a><\/strong> had landed a part in The Hobbit?\u00a0Well,\u00a0thanks to message board member\u00a0<em>Kimi<\/em>, we&#8217;ve news today of two more four-footed folks joining the movie&#8217;s stellar cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spider and Rusty<\/strong>, <strong>two bullocks<\/strong> from Kaipara\u2019s Battensby\u00a0bullock team, have been taken down to Wellington and are prepping for a scene in The Hobbit. Owner and team master Ross Battensby says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">We are now on an 1800-acre farm at Grey\u2019s Road near Wellington that is leased by the production. I can\u2019t say too much about what the bullocks will be doing, but we are spending two weeks in rehearsals for a scene which will be shot in the old General Motors building apparently. So the rehearsals are so the bullocks know what is required of them. It\u2019s quite a lot of work for one scene.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire interesting article can be read over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiparalifestyler.co.nz\/Of_Interest.cfm?NewsID=4003\" target=\"_blank\">The Kaipara Lifestyler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So where in the movies do you think Spider and Rusty will show up? The Shire? Beorn&#8217;s House? Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=357903#357903\" target=\"_blank\">our message boards<\/a> to discuss with fellow fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how a few months back TORn reported that Geordie the Billy Goat had landed a part in&#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_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":[499,1300,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bBs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606","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=44606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}