{"id":49221,"date":"2011-10-20T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=49221"},"modified":"2011-10-20T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T16:10:07","slug":"icelandic-horses-to-play-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/10\/20\/49221-icelandic-horses-to-play-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Horses to Play in The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/horses-winter-closeup_go-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"horses-winter-closeup_go\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-49222 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/horses-winter-closeup_go-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/horses-winter-closeup_go.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Icelandic horses will play a big part in The Hobbit, the upcoming film directed by Peter Jackson, based on the eponymous story by J.R.R. Tolkien. Shooting is currently taking place in New Zealand. \u201cThe look of the Icelandic horse, which grows a thick fur in the winter months, was one of the aspects filmmakers took notice of,\u201d said Cali Madincea at New Line Cinema, the film\u2019s production company, according to Fr\u00e9ttabladid. \u201cAnother important quality of the Icelandic horse is its endurance and strength; it can carry people weighing up to 120 kilos,\u201d Madincea explained, adding that the t\u00f6lt had also charmed them. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icelandreview.com\/icelandreview\/daily_news\/Icelandic_Horses_to_Play_in_The_Hobbit_0_383404.news.aspx\">More..<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icelandic horses will play a big part in The Hobbit, the upcoming film directed by Peter Jackson, based&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[114,4,148],"tags":[1574],"class_list":["post-49221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-horsies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-cNT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}