{"id":62285,"date":"2012-09-25T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=62285"},"modified":"2012-09-25T16:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:59:44","slug":"billy-connolly-talks-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/25\/62285-billy-connolly-talks-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Connolly talks The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/25\/62285-billy-connolly-talks-the-hobbit\/billy-connolly-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62286\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-62286 no-lazyload\" title=\"Billy-Connolly\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Billy-Connolly-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/09\/billy-connolly-tolkien-unreadable-the-hobbit.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fvulture+%28Vulture+-+nymag.com%27s+Entertainment+and+Culture+Blog%29\">vulture.com<\/a> cornered Billy Connolly for an interview, they got an ear full about his role as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/characters\/dain\/\">Dain Ironfoot<\/a> in the upcoming Hobbit movies. According to Connolly, he has yet to finish his battle scenes, so he&#8217;ll be returning to New Zealand next year. When asked if he&#8217;d ever read <em>The Hobbit<\/em> or <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, he replied: &#8220;I could never read Tolkien. I always found him unreadable,&#8221; though he did say the scripts are brilliant, Martin Freeman is brilliant and the 3-D is stunning. Maybe some audio books are in order? We&#8217;ll gladly send you a set, Billy, if you&#8217;re interested. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/09\/billy-connolly-tolkien-unreadable-the-hobbit.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nymag%2Fvulture+%28Vulture+-+nymag.com%27s+Entertainment+and+Culture+Blog%29\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When vulture.com cornered Billy Connolly for an interview, they got an ear full about his role as Dain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[1637,4,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billy-connolly","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gcB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62289,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62285\/revisions\/62289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}