{"id":45385,"date":"2011-06-24T06:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=45385"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:09:38","slug":"sir-peter-honoured-as-arts-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/24\/45385-sir-peter-honoured-as-arts-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Peter honoured as &#8216;Arts Icon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45387 alignright no-lazyload\" title=\"Peter ajckson\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/sirpeter600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Oxford English Dictionary an &#8216;icon&#8217; is a person regarded as &#8220;<em>a representative symbol<\/em>&#8221; or &#8220;worthy of veneration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a definition &#8211; according to the Arts Foundation &#8211; fitting for Sir Peter Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s famed for his cameos on the big screen, but Sir Peter admits the last place he&#8217;s comfortable is on camera &#8211; or receiving an Arts Icon award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I always imagine artists to be those people who work alone, by themselves, producing amazing things and I guess I always feel a little bit of a cheat because I work with such a big team of people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article and watch the video here [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Sir-Peter-honoured-as-arts-icon\/tabid\/418\/articleID\/216270\/Default.aspx\">3 News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Oxford English Dictionary an &#8216;icon&#8217; is a person regarded as &#8220;a representative symbol&#8221; or &#8220;worthy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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":[497,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-directors","category-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-bO1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45385","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}