{"id":89500,"date":"2014-05-22T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=89500"},"modified":"2014-05-22T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:19:26","slug":"norfolk-gardener-spends-10-years-turning-his-hedge-into-100-foot-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/05\/22\/89500-norfolk-gardener-spends-10-years-turning-his-hedge-into-100-foot-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Gardener spends 10 years turning his hedge into 100 foot Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-89501 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"NorfolkDragonHedge\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge.jpg 1537w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Message board member Greenwood Hobbit has shared this story\u00a0<a title=\"Smaug in a most unusual form...\" href=\"http:\/\/newboards.theonering.net\/forum\/gforum\/perl\/gforum.cgi?post=743881\" target=\"_blank\">on our message boards<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0about John Brooker from Norfolk UK \u00a0who has spent the last ten years turning his hedge into a 100 foot long Dragon. GH also felt that Mr Brooker has a striking resemblance to Gandalf. \u00a0We think his Dragon is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From Yahoo News UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Dedicated gardener spends 10 years trimming garden hedge into fearsome 100ft dragon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Brooker&#8217;s creation in King&#8217;s Lynn often frightens local ramblers<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated gardener John Brooker has spent a decade making his outdoor masterpiece &#8211; a giant hedge sculpted into a 100ft long dragon.<\/p>\n<p>John, 75, who lives in a cottage in the grounds of Frizzleton Farm near King&#8217;s Lynn in Norfolk, carefully clipped his hedgerow into a huge fairytale monster, complete with six legs, wings and pointed teeth.<\/p>\n<p>He spends hours trimming the 20ft high hedge to keep it in shape, and has added extra details like flared nostrils over the years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a title=\"Dedicated gardener spends 10 years trimming garden hedge into fearsome 100ft dragon\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/dedicated-gardener-spends-10-years-trimming-garden-hedge-into-fearsome-100ft-dragon-161520395.html#ed1GbBg\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message board member Greenwood Hobbit has shared this story\u00a0on our message boards\u00a0\u00a0about John Brooker from Norfolk UK \u00a0who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":89501,"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":[198,197,22],"tags":[2271],"class_list":["post-89500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans-creations","category-fans","category-headlines","tag-dragon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NorfolkDragonHedge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-nhy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89500","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\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89503,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89500\/revisions\/89503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}