{"id":3711,"date":"2009-12-30T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-extra-application-process-is-way-too-20th-century-lord-of-the-rings\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T19:00:30","slug":"peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-extra-application-process-is-way-too-20th-century-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-extra-application-process-is-way-too-20th-century-lord-of-the-rings.php","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson&#8217;s  The Hobbit  Extra Application Process Is Way Too 20th Century [Lord Of The Rings]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/be016_lotr-house.jpg\" class=\"left image340\" width=\"340\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Quick, grab the ent-draught and gather 'round, for I have some exciting news from Middle-Earth! <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #peterjackson\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/peterjackson\/\">Peter Jackson<\/a> has put out word that extras for <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #thehobbit\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/thehobbit\/\">The Hobbit<\/a> are in dire need. But he's doing it old school for some reason.<\/p><p>Director Guillermo del Toro and executive producer and co-writer Peter Jackson are taking applications via snail mail, a casting video must be included, and New Zealand citizens get priority over other nationalities.<\/p><p>I'm well aware that the Hobbit was set sometime between the \"Dawn of F&aelig;rie\" and the \"Dominion of Men,\" but surely their application requirements could be more suited to the 21st century? If only so we can chuckle at YouTube entries of curly-haired Kiwis lisping over their lines. We might even spot a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Figwit\">new Figwit<\/a> that way, destined to go on to greats things like Flight of the Conchords. 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Peter Jackson has put out word that extras for The Hobbit are in dire need. But he's doing it old school for some reason.Director Guillermo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/peter-jacksons-the-hobbit-extra-application-process-is-way-too-20th-century-lord-of-the-rings.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}