{"id":6048,"date":"2015-01-01T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2020-10-16T22:30:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:30:20","slug":"the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. They&#8217;re suspicious and secretive, with the <strong>worst<\/strong> manners you can possibly imagine. But they are also brave and kind, and loyal to a fault. I&#8217;ve grown very fond of them, and I would save them if I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies<\/strong>, released in 2014<\/p>\n<p>Smaug the dragon has woken up and he&#8217;s ready to burn down the nearest town. Meanwhile Thorin has become over-fond of the mountain of gold he&#8217;s now sitting on. Unbeknownst to him, an army of orcs is heading his way. This is the conclusion to the trilogy. It&#8217;s visually stunning, of course. There&#8217;s lots of action, a bit of romance, and some setting things up for <strong>The Lord of the Rings<\/strong>. There&#8217;s quite a bit of fighting, as the subtitle suggests. Ian McKellen and Evangeline Lilly star.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Peter Jackson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2\/\"><strong>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. They&#8217;re suspicious and secretive, with the worst manners you can possibly imagine. But they are also brave and kind, and loyal to a fault. I&#8217;ve grown very fond of them, and I would save them if I can.&#8221; The Hobbit: The Battle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16655,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/16655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}