{"id":50764,"date":"2011-11-30T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=50764"},"modified":"2011-11-30T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:00:10","slug":"otago-daily-times-secrecy-surrounds-hobbit-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/30\/50764-otago-daily-times-secrecy-surrounds-hobbit-filming\/","title":{"rendered":"Otago Daily Times: Secrecy Surrounds Hobbit filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From Otago Daily Times: Up to 250 members of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> film crew were<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/11\/30\/50764-otago-daily-times-secrecy-surrounds-hobbit-filming\/secrecy-surrounds-hobbit-filming\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50766\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-50766 no-lazyload\" title=\"Secrecy surrounds Hobbit filming\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Secrecy-surrounds-Hobbit-filming.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Secrecy-surrounds-Hobbit-filming.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Secrecy-surrounds-Hobbit-filming-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> working on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.nz\/maps\/place?ftid=0xa9d56a709f7337f3:0x500ef8684795f60&amp;q=Treble+Cone&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=0CAwQ-gswAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=soXWTuGLIoKckQXE9JzmAg\">Treble Cone<\/a>, in the Matukituki Valley, yesterday but those in charge were keeping mum about who was in town and what part of J.R.R. Tolkein&#8217;s popular story was being filmed.<\/p>\n<p>The second production unit of Peter Jackson&#8217;s company, 3Foot7 Ltd, began setting up camp in a Cattle Flat Station paddock at the base of the Treble Cone ski area access road on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The film crew began arriving on Tuesday for a single day&#8217;s filming, but visitors were kept out by security guards.<\/p>\n<p>Unit manager Belinda Lee Hope apologised for having to decline to give any details about the unit&#8217;s activities, but said she could understand if locals were excited about the film crew being in the area and that Wanaka locations could appear in the film. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/your-town\/wanaka\/188900\/secrecy-surrounds-hobit-filming\"><strong>more..<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Otago Daily Times: Up to 250 members of The Hobbit film crew were working on Treble Cone,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50766,"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":[4,333,20,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/11\/Secrecy-surrounds-Hobbit-filming.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-dcM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764","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=50764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}