{"id":71610,"date":"2013-05-13T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=71610"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:21:49","slug":"wsj-enter-the-dragon-tolkien-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/05\/13\/71610-wsj-enter-the-dragon-tolkien-style\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Enter the Dragon, Tolkien-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2013\/05\/13\/enter-the-dragon-tolkien-style\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-71611 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Benedict Cumberbatch\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/OB-XL307_cumber_E_20130513000742-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/OB-XL307_cumber_E_20130513000742-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/OB-XL307_cumber_E_20130513000742.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mention Smaug, the classic storybook dragon of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s \u201cThe Hobbit,\u201d and a ray of delight flickers across Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s pale eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Smaug, \u201ca most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm\u201d of Tolkien lore, is for many children their first encounter with fire-breathing, scaly dragons. \u201cFirst one for me,\u201d Cumberbatch is quick to add. \u201cMy dad read the book to me and it was a bedtime treat if I had done well. If I had been a good boy, I\u2019d get two chapters as opposed to maybe one or none if I had been really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As his father, actor Timothy Carlton, brought the colorful characters of \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d to life, a film played out in young Cumberbatch\u2019s mind \u2013 decades before he would be cast as Smaug in Peter Jackson\u2019s own film \u201cThe Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2013\/05\/13\/enter-the-dragon-tolkien-style\/?mod=google_news_blog\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mention Smaug, the classic storybook dragon of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s \u201cThe Hobbit,\u201d and a ray of delight flickers across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":71611,"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":[1506,1300,4,148],"tags":[1313,1960],"class_list":["post-71610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-smaug","tag-wsj"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/OB-XL307_cumber_E_20130513000742.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-iD0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71610","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71612,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71610\/revisions\/71612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}