{"id":61782,"date":"2012-09-14T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=61782"},"modified":"2012-09-14T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:00:52","slug":"middle-earth-is-closer-to-home-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/14\/61782-middle-earth-is-closer-to-home-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Earth is closer to home than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk\">Northhumberland Gazette<\/a>: Reader Phil Murray spotted something<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/14\/61782-middle-earth-is-closer-to-home-than-you-think\/edlingham-castle-compare\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61790\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-61790 no-lazyload\" title=\"Edlingham Castle-compare\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Edlingham-Castle-compare-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Edlingham-Castle-compare-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Edlingham-Castle-compare.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a> that looked very familiar when he pulled out the A3\u00a0 <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> poster that came with the <em>Total Film<\/em> magazine, the fields of the shire in the background of the poster reminded him of <em>Edlingham Castle<\/em> with the old <em>Alnwick<\/em> to <em>Wooler<\/em> railway viaduct and the <em>Simonside Hills<\/em> which can be seen in the atmospheric artwork as the ruined keep.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The level of detail in such a large version of the picture piqued my curiosity and I dived onto my computer to hunt for a picture I\u2019d taken of the castle a couple of summers ago to see if my hunch was correct. I was stunned when it<\/em><em> matched up perfectly \u2013 even the field boundaries immediately around the castle were the same in the poster as in<\/em><em> real life&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Read [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/middle-earth-is-closer-to-home-than-you-think-1-4923851\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Northhumberland Gazette: Reader Phil Murray spotted something that looked very familiar when he pulled out the A3\u00a0&#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_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":[4,333,74,496,498,148,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-jackson","category-production","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","category-warner-bros"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-g4u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61782","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=61782"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61797,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61782\/revisions\/61797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}