{"id":5754,"date":"2003-12-16T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/16\/you-cannot-always-be-torn-in-two\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T00:54:07","slug":"you-cannot-always-be-torn-in-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/16\/5754-you-cannot-always-be-torn-in-two\/","title":{"rendered":"You Cannot Always Be Torn In Two &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen FX &#8211; I know what cool stuff looks like. I don&#8217;t care how pretty your christmas decorations are: if the tree is dead, the tree is dead. You can hang as many pretty baubles on it as you like, but that&#8217;s still a dead tree.&#8221; &#8211; Ben Wootten, Senior Designer, WETA Workshop.<\/p>\n<p>This quote pithily encapsulates the greatest fear I had about Lord of the Rings &#8211; that it might turn into an action\/FX fest without a depth of characterisation to make it more than junk food. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/perl\/newsview\/8\/1071622209\">More<\/a>] <b><font color=\"red\">Minor Spoilers<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen FX &#8211; I know what cool stuff looks like. I don&#8217;t care how pretty your christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-5754","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-1uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}