{"id":95636,"date":"2014-12-12T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=95636"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:31:32","slug":"stephen-colbert-interviews-smaug-the-magnificent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/12\/12\/95636-stephen-colbert-interviews-smaug-the-magnificent\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert interviews Smaug the Magnificent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert.png\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-95638 no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert-300x199.png\" alt=\"smaug colbert\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert-600x398.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert.png 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In a rare move, Stephen Colbert was granted an interview (er&#8230;audience) with none other than Smaug himself on his American television show &#8220;The Colbert Report&#8221;. As many of you know, Stephen is a great Tolkien fan, and Smaug seemingly left his last press interview of the day just for him.<\/p>\n<p>The two share some of their common political interests, and Smaug discusses some of the difficulties of working on the Peter Jackson&#8217;s <em>Hobbit<\/em> trilogy &#8211; as well as his distaste for several &#8220;pretender&#8221; Hollywood dragons.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Click play on the video below to enjoy the entire interview! (or click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gMLd6NIgwtU\">here<\/a> to view on YouTube)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width: 520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\">\n<p><iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:colbertnation.com:44461362-2dbf-416f-8ab1-4fc95f6a6cf9\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/b><br \/>\nGet More: <a href=\"http:\/\/thecolbertreport.cc.com\/full-episodes\/\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision\">Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecolbertreport\">The Colbert Report on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare move, Stephen Colbert was granted an interview (er&#8230;audience) with none other than Smaug himself on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":95648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1506,22,4,153,495,87,148,2497,103],"tags":[2094,2251,1313,632,221],"class_list":["post-95636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benedict-cumberbatch","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-tolkien-life","category-miscellaneous","category-events-television","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","category-production-weta-digital","tag-battle-of-the-five-armies","tag-interview","tag-smaug","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/smaug-colbert1.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-oSw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95636","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\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95636"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95660,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95636\/revisions\/95660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}