{"id":63268,"date":"2012-10-15T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=63268"},"modified":"2012-10-15T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T04:00:29","slug":"hobbit-tourism-scatters-more-of-tolkiens-magic-across-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/15\/63268-hobbit-tourism-scatters-more-of-tolkiens-magic-across-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbit tourism scatters more of Tolkien&#8217;s magic across New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/07\/62883-wellington-gears-up-for-hobbit-premier\/the-hobbit-bag-end-door\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62884\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62884 no-lazyload\" title=\"The Hobbit Bag End Door\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Hobbit-Bag-End-Door-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Hobbit-Bag-End-Door-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/The-Hobbit-Bag-End-Door.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to Ataahua for sending in a link to this story from The Guardian: This time last year, <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on New Zealand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> was under the spell of the Rugby World Cup, with host nation enthusiasm going a long way to realising the organisers&#8217; vision of a &#8220;stadium of four million&#8221;. In 2012, the big event features hairy feet of a different sort, with the New Zealand-made film <em><a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/movie\/125622\/hobbit\">The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/a> <\/em>opening with a world premiere in Wellington, the home town of director Sir <a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Peter Jackson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/peterjackson\">Peter Jackson<\/a>, in six weeks. <strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ataahua for sending in a link to this story from The Guardian: This time last year,&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[4,333,20,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit-locations","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thanks to Ataahua for sending in a link to this story from The Guardian: This time last year, New Zealand was under the spell of the Rugby World Cup, with host nation enthusiasm going a long way to realising the organisers&#039; vision of a &quot;stadium of four million&quot;. 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