{"id":145,"date":"2017-04-02T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/02\/april-fools\/"},"modified":"2017-04-02T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T11:14:20","slug":"april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/02\/april-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you caught me&#8230; well, some of you did, at least<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;904&#8243;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Every April first, someone plunks my magic twanger and I can&#8217;t help myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, sadly, I must confess that Wild Cards is <b><i>NOT<\/i><\/b> coming to Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>(But wouldn&#8217;t it be swell if it did?  After I finished writing that blog post, I was eager to see that show myself.   And Kevin went ahead and wrote all the lyrics to one of the songs).<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Devilish Diana Rowland, who came up with the idea, and to Kevin Andrew Murphy and Christopher Rowe, who suggested some of the song titles.<\/p>\n<p>And of course extra special thanks as well to John Hodgman, Sibel Kekilli, and the amazing Lin-Manuel Miranda, who went along with the gag and gave me permission to take their names in vain.   (Though I think John really <i><b>does <\/b><\/i>want to play Dr. Tod.  If there&#8217;s anyone out there casting for a mad scientist, take note). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you caught me&#8230; well, some of you did, at least &lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;904&#8243;\/&gt; Every April first, someone plunks my magic twanger and I can&#8217;t help myself. So, sadly, I must confess that Wild Cards is NOT coming to Broadway. (But wouldn&#8217;t it be swell if it did? After I finished writing that blog post, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}