{"id":67726,"date":"2012-12-27T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=67726"},"modified":"2012-12-27T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T22:39:39","slug":"kiwi-catapults-to-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/12\/27\/67726-kiwi-catapults-to-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi catapults to Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bifur-williamkircher-p.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bifur-williamkircher-p-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wiliam Kircher as Bifur in The Hobbit\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46162 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bifur-williamkircher-p-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bifur-williamkircher-p.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a> Kiwi actor William Kircher returned from a whirlwind 10 days at Hobbit world premieres to news he has landed a lead role in a new Hollywood movie. Kircher &#8212; who plays dwarf Bifur in the latest Peter Jackson fantasy hit &#8212; returned to Wellington on Wednesday after mingling with the stars on the red carpet in New York and London.<\/p>\n<p>He hardly had time to draw breath before being told about his plum part as a smooth-talking villain in an upcoming American thriller, alongside an Oscar-winning actress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is really exciting to get a break like this and I hear being in The Hobbit certainly helped,&#8221; Kircher told The New Zealand Herald on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&#038;objectid=10855766\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiwi actor William Kircher returned from a whirlwind 10 days at Hobbit world premieres to news he has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":46162,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71,69,453,1385],"tags":[1826],"class_list":["post-67726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-oscar-parties","category-events-premieres","category-wellington","category-william-kircher","tag-manu-bennett"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bifur-williamkircher-p.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hCm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67726","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=67726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67729,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67726\/revisions\/67729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}