{"id":667,"date":"2002-12-10T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T06:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=667"},"modified":"2004-10-23T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T16:11:20","slug":"the-tale-of-the-crazed-kiwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"the tale of the crazed Kiwi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Michael Jennings, <a href=http:\/\/www.michaeljennings.blogspot.com\/2002_12_01_michaeljennings_archive.html#85657124>&#8220;how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i>.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> But, for now, some stories can have happy endings.  (At least one insane bearded New Zealander is now insanely rich.  And I think a world in which insane bearded New Zealanders can become insanely rich by making ludicrously over-ambitious movies is better than one where this is not the case). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link from <a href=http:\/\/www.theeyeofthebeholder.com\/>Scott Wickstein, The Eye of the Beholder<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Michael Jennings, &#8220;how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings.&#8221; But, for now, some stories can have happy endings. (At least one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}