{"id":48784,"date":"2011-10-07T07:28:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=48784"},"modified":"2011-10-07T07:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:28:05","slug":"waikato-times-hobbit-hunt-scours-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/10\/07\/48784-waikato-times-hobbit-hunt-scours-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato Times: Hobbit Hunt Scours the Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-48785 no-lazyload\" title=\"Waikato Times Hobbiton Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/5748583-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/5748583-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/5748583.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/>From the Waikato Times<\/em>:\u00a0Two barefoot men, one with a bushy white beard, sat outside a cafe in Matamata yesterday, but a closer inspection revealed a marked lack of hair on their smooth feet.<\/p>\n<p>With the Hobbiton movie set near Matamata closed for filming on Wednesday, the Waikato Times&#8217; hunt for hobbits is on.<\/p>\n<p>The permit given to production company 3 Foot 7 to film in Matamata was for filming rights lasting no more than 15 days before November 8, but there have been no movie star sightings yet.<\/p>\n<p>Espresso To Go owner Bill Anderson said they would be willing to make hobbit-sized coffees if the demand was there but last time around 3 Foot 7 had their own cafe on set, so he was not holding out hope for an influx of Hollywood big spenders.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/waikato-times\/news\/5748291\/Hobbit-hunt-scours-the-Shire\" target=\"_blank\">Read on<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Waikato Times:\u00a0Two barefoot men, one with a bushy white beard, sat outside a cafe in Matamata&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":48785,"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":[114,8,1300,4,333,20,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-production-crew-news","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-new_zealand","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/5748583.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-cGQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48784","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=48784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}