{"id":55380,"date":"2012-04-26T03:24:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=55380"},"modified":"2012-04-26T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:25:07","slug":"john-rawls-cast-as-azog-in-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/26\/55380-john-rawls-cast-as-azog-in-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"John Rawls Cast As Azog In &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/26\/55380-john-rawls-cast-as-azog-in-the-hobbit\/john-rawls-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55385\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-55385 no-lazyload\" title=\"John Rawls\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/John-Rawls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Several of our message board members have written in with the news that acting agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kr-actors.co.nz\/detailsx.php?act_id=130\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Rawlings &amp; Associates<\/a> has listed actor <strong>John Rawls<\/strong> as playing <strong>Azog<\/strong> in <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While there hasn&#8217;t been any announcement from the production concerning this bit of casting, we might take it as &#8220;official&#8221; given that it isn&#8217;t at all unusual for bad guys to get shuffled around in productions of this magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>For some geeky information concerning Azog, who Tolkien describes as \u201c<em>a great Orc with a huge iron-clad head, and yet agile and strong<\/em>\u201d,\u00a0visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/azog\/\" target=\"_blank\">TORn&#8217;s &#8220;Azog&#8221; Character Page<\/a><\/strong>, maintained by our very own TORn staffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of our message board members have written in with the news that acting agency Kathryn Rawlings &amp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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":[114,499,1300,4,1667,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-casting","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-john-rawls","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-epe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55390,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380\/revisions\/55390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}