{"id":54413,"date":"2012-03-22T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54413"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:54:50","slug":"wild-weather-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/03\/22\/54413-wild-weather-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild weather in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/12\/05\/51053-mrcere-officially-gives-up-in-nz-me\/matamata\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51055\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-51055 no-lazyload\" title=\"matamata\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/matamata-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/matamata-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/matamata.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>The North Island of New Zealand has been experiencing some wild weather this week, with heavy rainfall, high winds and even some\u00a0flooding affecting areas such as Northland, Taupo and Taranaki; and some folks have been wondering if The Shire has been affected.\u00a0 Fear not for Middle-earth &#8211;\u00a0TORn&#8217;s good friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ianbrodie.net\/home\/home.html\">Ian Brodie <\/a>(author of <em>The Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook<\/em>), tells us, &#8216;Hobbiton\u00a0had a windy night last night &#8211; but we are all fine. The wild weather has struck north of Auckland for the worst and has caused some flooding. Today The Shire even has sun!!!!&#8217;\u00a0 So all is well in Matamata\u00a0&#8211; and the latest weather updates show that the storms have passed over New Zealand, leaving just showers behind.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the main location shooting has been completed for <em>The Hobbit<\/em> movies, so unless some really drastic weather hits the Wellington area, the shoot should continue unaffected.\u00a0 (Remember the close escape at the end of location shooting, about which PJ told us in <em>The Hobbit<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetanz.com\/the-hobbit-movies-latest-updates\/\">Production Video #6<\/a>??)\u00a0 We hope everyone on the North Island who was affected by these recent storms is safe and dry!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Island of New Zealand has been experiencing some wild weather this week, with heavy rainfall, high&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":51055,"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":[4,333,495,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-miscellaneous","category-new_zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/matamata.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-e9D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54413"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54422,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54413\/revisions\/54422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}