{"id":55101,"date":"2012-04-16T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=55101"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:42:23","slug":"new-zealand-expects-hobbity-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/16\/55101-new-zealand-expects-hobbity-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand expects Hobbity visitors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/16\/55101-new-zealand-expects-hobbity-visitors\/new-zealand-map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55102\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-55102 no-lazyload\" title=\"new-zealand-map\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-zealand-map-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>For the fans of Tolkien who wish they could visit Middle-earth, New Zealand is, in many regards, the closest they will\u00a0get.\u00a0 Certainly the <em>Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies created a huge boost to New Zealand tourism; it would be fascinating to know how many readers of TORn were inspired to visit &#8211; or even to move! &#8211; down under after watching Peter Jackson&#8217;s films.<\/p>\n<p>Now the New Zealand tourist board is getting ready for another influx of visitors, and businesses are being encouraged to\u00a0embrace <em>The Hobbit<\/em> in order to attract tourists.\u00a0 \u00a0Last year, the Rugby World Cup (which happens every four years) was hosted &#8211; and won! &#8211; by New Zealand; but the tourism created by that event is as nothing compared with what <em>The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0will bring, says George Hickton, the man who led the &#8216;100% Pure New Zealand&#8217; campaign.\u00a0 You can read what he has to say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10798426\">here<\/a>;\u00a0if it makes you want to hurry off for an Aotearoa\u00a0adventure, don&#8217;t forget your passport &#8211; and maybe a pocket-handkerchief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fans of Tolkien who wish they could visit Middle-earth, New Zealand is, in many regards, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":55102,"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":[4,20,148,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit","category-nz-tours"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-zealand-map.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ekJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55101","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=55101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55107,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55101\/revisions\/55107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}