{"id":54937,"date":"2012-04-09T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=54937"},"modified":"2012-04-09T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:45:58","slug":"ralph-bakshi-remembers-thomas-kinkade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/09\/54937-ralph-bakshi-remembers-thomas-kinkade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Bakshi remembers Thomas Kinkade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/09\/54937-ralph-bakshi-remembers-thomas-kinkade\/kinkade\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54962\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-54962 no-lazyload\" title=\"kinkade fire and ice\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kinkade-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thomas Kinkade, the &#8216;Painter of Light&#8217;, who died last week at the age of 54, worked one of his first jobs for the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0director Ralph Bakshi.\u00a0 In 1983, five years after making his version of Tolkien&#8217;s story, Bakshi directed a movie called<em> Fire and Ice<\/em>, and Thomas Kinkade, then 25, painted backgrounds for the film.\u00a0 Bakshi talks about the painter <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?llr=kfkoticab&amp;v=001EjBomfbIyfgD7BPDd2116JJCJ6NK-xC3lxKvRyLAqunkqSa4LR4Wp1w1DcwHuUilSAW1g0fNfIix7kAI_gDipzfybIGSyJy6ZkyxejQOp7qTouxTRBRXiQ%3D%3D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Kinkade, the &#8216;Painter of Light&#8217;, who died last week at the age of 54, worked one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":54962,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[495,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-lotr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thomas Kinkade, the &#039;Painter of Light&#039;, who died last week at the age of 54, worked one of his first jobs for the Lord of the Rings director Ralph Bakshi. 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