{"id":69508,"date":"2013-02-28T01:58:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=69508"},"modified":"2013-02-28T02:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:01:39","slug":"hobbiton-set-to-shrivel-in-waikato-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/02\/28\/69508-hobbiton-set-to-shrivel-in-waikato-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobbiton set to shrivel in Waikato drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HobbitonSet5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Inn across the water\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-51181 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HobbitonSet5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/HobbitonSet5.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Bilbo Baggins&#8217; lush green shire could have the life sucked out of it after Waikato&#8217;s undeclared drought restricted Hobbiton&#8217;s water supply.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the region&#8217;s driest summer in five years and, with no rain in sight, Matamata best known tourist attraction may become three hectares of parched grass and stressed plants.<\/p>\n<p>Losing the green image threatens to damage Hobbiton&#8217;s international image and could cost thousands of dollars to fix, manager Russell Alexander said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The film set, that featured in both The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, has enjoyed an unprecedented summer of business.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/business\/industries\/8350078\/Hobbiton-set-to-shrivel-in-Waikato-drought\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilbo Baggins&#8217; lush green shire could have the life sucked out of it after Waikato&#8217;s undeclared drought restricted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":49607,"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":[333,20,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobbit-locations","category-new_zealand","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Matamata-Hobbiton-October-2011.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-i56","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69508","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=69508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69512,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69508\/revisions\/69512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}