{"id":5511,"date":"2003-12-30T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/30\/film-maker-proud-of-mystifying-award\/"},"modified":"2003-12-30T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2003-12-31T01:09:24","slug":"film-maker-proud-of-mystifying-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/30\/5511-film-maker-proud-of-mystifying-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Film maker proud of mystifying award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Special effects wizard Richard Taylor confesses to having being mystified when told he had been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year&#8217;s Honours. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t really understand what it was,&#8221; said Taylor, who co-owns special effects studios Weta Workshop and Weta Digital, where the Oscar-award winning special effects for the Lord Of The Rings movies were created. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/0,2106,2770907a1860,00.html\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special effects wizard Richard Taylor confesses to having being mystified when told he had been made an Officer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-1qT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}