{"id":73,"date":"2004-07-28T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=73"},"modified":"2004-07-28T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T23:24:00","slug":"orlando-bloom-is-the-new-young-james-bond-the-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Bloom is the new young James Bond! – The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Bloom is the new young James Bond! – The Times of India<\/a>: <\/p>\n

LONDON: British actor Orlando Bloom actor has been signed by Miramax to play young James Bond in his new movie which is based on the college days of this widely popular secret agent. <\/p>\n

There were rumours floating that Bloom is taking over the role of James Bond from Pierce Brosnan in the next film due out next November. <\/p>\n

According to Ananova, Bond producers were looking for a new leading man and Bloom was the lucky guy who got the role.
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(does anyone else think this is strange?)<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando Bloom is the new young James Bond! – The Times of India: LONDON: British actor Orlando Bloom actor has been signed by Miramax to play young James Bond in his new movie which is based on the college days of this widely popular secret agent. There were rumours floating that Bloom is taking over … Continue reading “Orlando Bloom is the new young James Bond! – The Times of India”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-1b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1710,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1710","url_meta":{"origin":73,"position":0},"title":"Creativity vs Competence","author":"Jorah","date":"March 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Something crystalized for me this morning, and I don\u2019t know yet how I feel about it, nor where it might take me. 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