{"id":5925,"date":"2003-12-09T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/09\/mckellen-says-shakespeare-helped-him-play-gandalf\/"},"modified":"2003-12-09T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T21:39:56","slug":"mckellen-says-shakespeare-helped-him-play-gandalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2003\/12\/09\/5925-mckellen-says-shakespeare-helped-him-play-gandalf\/","title":{"rendered":"McKellen Says Shakespeare Helped Him Play Gandalf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontIM.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Acclaimed British actor Ian McKellen said Monday Shakespeare acting helped him to play the wizard Gandalf in &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy. &#8220;Having played Shakespeare where you&#8217;re often required to be intensely naturalistic and the next minute rhetorical, speaking blank verse and rallying the troops maybe, that&#8217;s quite a good preparation for playing Gandalf,&#8221; McKellen told journalists. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=peopleNews&#038;storyID=3957386\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br \/><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acclaimed British actor Ian McKellen said Monday Shakespeare acting helped him to play the wizard Gandalf in &#8220;The&#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-5925","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-1xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925","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=5925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}