{"id":50140,"date":"2011-11-13T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=50140"},"modified":"2011-11-13T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T14:48:16","slug":"sir-ian-mckellens-latest-blog-post-includes-a-hobbity-tidbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/13\/50140-sir-ian-mckellens-latest-blog-post-includes-a-hobbity-tidbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Ian McKellen&#8217;s Latest Blog Post Includes A Hobbity Tidbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/13\/50140-sir-ian-mckellens-latest-blog-post-includes-a-hobbity-tidbit\/ian-mckellen-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50141\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50141 no-lazyload\" title=\"Ian McKellen\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ian-McKellen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ian-McKellen.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ian-McKellen-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>Sir Ian McKellen<\/strong> has updated his blog with a new entry titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckellen.com\/cinema\/hobbit-movie\/111113.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Soldiering On<\/a>&#8221; and, among other things, talks about his role as <strong>Gandalf the Grey<\/strong> in <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The relevant excerpt follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In\u00a0The Hobbit, Gandalf is part old duffer but more he&#8217;s a soldier. Peter Jackson, who likes to see the old guys fighting it out, reminded me the other day that Gandalf is a commander, a general. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having slain the Great Goblin I was being a bit too indulgent with the dwarves who meanwhile had mislaid Bilbo in the goblin tunnels.\u00a0<\/em><em>I&#8217;ve played enough soldiers to see that PJ was right and in the next take I was very stern.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The image on the right comes courtesy of McKellen&#8217;s blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Ian McKellen has updated his blog with a new entry titled &#8220;Soldiering On&#8221; and, among other things,&#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":[499,497,1300,4,49,74,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-mckellen","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-d2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50140","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=50140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}