{"id":65245,"date":"2012-11-15T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=65245"},"modified":"2012-11-15T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T13:36:08","slug":"rare-animals-praised-for-acting-up-for-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/15\/65245-rare-animals-praised-for-acting-up-for-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare animals praised for acting up for The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><figure id=\"attachment_65246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65246\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hobbit-animal-actors.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hobbit-animal-actors-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hobbit animal actors\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65246 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hobbit-animal-actors-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hobbit-animal-actors.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Kelly with Nellie, a miniature Galloway, which stars in \u0007The Hobbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure> Christchurch&#8217;s own Nellie the cow could join the likes of Lassie, Flipper and Skippy when she makes an appearance in Peter Jackson&#8217;s upcoming blockbuster The Hobbit.<\/p>\n<p>The female miniature Galloway was &#8220;just meant to be floating in the background&#8221; of a scene in the long-awaited Peter Jackson movie when she walked up behind an actor, knocked his hat off and started licking his bald head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She just wouldn&#8217;t stop licking his head. She&#8217;s so good-natured and friendly and they just loved it so they&#8217;re going to put it in the movie,&#8221; said Diane Kelly, who brought Nellie to this year&#8217;s Canterbury A&#038;P Show.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/the-press\/news\/7951477\/Rare-animals-attract-praise-for-acting-up\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christchurch&#8217;s own Nellie the cow could join the likes of Lassie, Flipper and Skippy when she makes an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":65246,"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":"Rare animals attract praise for acting up for The Hobbit","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":[8,1300,4,496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production-crew-news","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-production"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/hobbit-animal-actors.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gYl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65245","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65248,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65245\/revisions\/65248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}