{"id":80718,"date":"2013-10-16T08:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=80718"},"modified":"2013-10-16T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:45:34","slug":"what-if-benedict-cumberbatch-had-voiced-the-rankin-bass-smaug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/10\/16\/80718-what-if-benedict-cumberbatch-had-voiced-the-rankin-bass-smaug\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Benedict Cumberbatch had voiced the Rankin Bass Smaug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bilbo2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Bilbo Rankin Bass\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-78804 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bilbo2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bilbo2-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bilbo2-75x75.jpeg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> This video asks: &#8216;What if Benedict Cumberbatch had voiced Smaug in the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit?&#8217;. Thanks to Ringer Sarge for making this! <\/p>\n<p>For the record, the late American actor Richard Boone voiced Smaug the dragon in the 1977 Rankin Bass cartoon. You can sample some of his bombastic, self-secure Smaug <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Or8G_jDcLNo\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GZ4GlEPvbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video asks: &#8216;What if Benedict Cumberbatch had voiced Smaug in the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit?&#8217;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78804,"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":[1506,198,197,4,148],"tags":[2154,2196],"class_list":["post-80718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-rankin-bass","tag-richard-boone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/bilbo2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kZU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718","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=80718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80721,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718\/revisions\/80721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}