{"id":50310,"date":"2011-11-15T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=50310"},"modified":"2011-11-15T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:06:58","slug":"hobbit-spotting-rife-in-otago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/15\/50310-hobbit-spotting-rife-in-otago\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hobbit&#8217; spotting rife in Otago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hobbitsign_460x230-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hobbitsign_460x230\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50311 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hobbitsign_460x230-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hobbitsign_460x230.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest things to happen in the Strath Taieri and Maniototo areas of Otago in recent years has tongues wagging &#8211; but only those of outsiders.<\/p>\n<p>Six helicopters, a giant marquee, security guards and dozens of trailers have been parked in a paddock east of Hyde for the past four days.<\/p>\n<p>But ask the locals why the trailers are there, and most reply &#8220;can&#8217;t say&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, use the words &#8220;hobbit&#8221;, &#8220;film set&#8221; and &#8220;Sir Peter Jackson&#8221;, and sly, knowing smiles cross their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Filming for Sir Peter&#8217;s two-part Hobbit series started in Wellington in March and, while other locations have been closely guarded, they include areas around the Strath Taieri and Queenstown. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10766160&#038;ref=rss\"><strong>More..<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest things to happen in the Strath Taieri and Maniototo areas of Otago in recent&#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":[4,333,20,334,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-d5s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50310","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=50310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}