{"id":60631,"date":"2012-08-10T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60631"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T05:00:37","slug":"fry-lends-voice-to-safe-cycling-in-wellington-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/08\/10\/60631-fry-lends-voice-to-safe-cycling-in-wellington-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry lends voice to safe cycling in Wellington videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/06\/03\/44918-bbc-talks-with-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-role\/bbc-news-stephen-fry-on-his-hobbit-film-role-in-new-zealand\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44919\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-44919 no-lazyload\" title=\"BBC News - Stephen Fry on his Hobbit film role in New Zealand\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/BBC-News-Stephen-Fry-on-his-Hobbit-film-role-in-New-Zealand-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a> Stephen Fry\u00a0 (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Master of Laketown<\/span>) lent his voice to narrate <a href=\"http:\/\/thefriendlycyclist.co.nz\/\"><em>The Friendly Cyclist<\/em><\/a> film series &#8212; a tongue-in-cheek series of cycling safety videos that follow the adventures of Mrs Penny Farthing as she learns how to cycle safely around Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Little Fighter Films wanted &#8220;a proper English voice&#8221;, and had Fry in mind when they wrote the scripts, but they unsure if they could get him involved in the project. They sent a &#8220;cheeky request&#8221; through a friend working for Wingnut films asking if he&#8217;d like to help. &#8220;Inexplicably, he did,&#8221; directors Mike and Hilleke Townsend told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/7439309\/Fry-lends-voice-to-Wellington-vids\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry\u00a0 (The Master of Laketown) lent his voice to narrate The Friendly Cyclist film series &#8212; a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[162,1300,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-screenings","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-stephen-fry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fLV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60631","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60631"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60642,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60631\/revisions\/60642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}