{"id":1872,"date":"2004-03-14T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/1872.html"},"modified":"2004-03-14T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T21:58:04","slug":"lotr-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/lotr-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"LotR: The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You think I'm joking, but no: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30000-13014271,00.html\">Producers are planning to turn the [books] into the most expensive musical ever seen in London<\/a>.\"  The musical will be \"a mammoth three and a half hours\" long.  The article fails to mention that that's only about a third of the running time of the movies.  I wonder what two-thirds of the story they'll cut.<\/p>\n<p>I found this in a <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/03\/14\/150232&mode=thread\">Slashdot article<\/a>; some of the comments are fun, too, though I recommend reading them at a threshold filter of 5.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think I&#8217;m joking, but no: &#8220;Producers are planning to turn the [books] into the most expensive musical ever seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}