{"id":51068,"date":"2011-12-05T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=51068"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:22:09","slug":"hobbits-elude-us-but-we-get-to-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/12\/05\/51068-hobbits-elude-us-but-we-get-to-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbits elude us, but we get to set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090999-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"6090999\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51069 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090999-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090999.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090998-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"6090998\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51070 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090998-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/6090998.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>Reporter Ian Allen on a Hobbit hunt: The Pelorus River, 60 kilometres west of Blenheim, features in a scene from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, showing barrels plunging down the scenic waterway during a perilous journey undertaken by Bilbo Baggins and the dwarfs.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Elmer Fudd on the prowl for pesky wabbits, I headed to Pelorus Bridge on Friday in search of hobbits.<\/p>\n<p>Being armed with Marlborough Express photographer Ben Curran, instead of Elmer&#8217;s preferred shotgun, was all that separated me from the hapless hunter.<\/p>\n<p>We had received a tipoff from a source that hobbit activity had escalated in recent days as Peter Jackson&#8217;s production company 3 Foot 7 prepared the location for 10 days of filming starting from today. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/marlborough-express\/news\/6090867\/Hobbits-elude-us-but-we-get-to-set\">More..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Ian Allen on a Hobbit hunt: The Pelorus River, 60 kilometres west of Blenheim, features in a&#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":[4,333,334,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-dhG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51068","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=51068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}