{"id":2219,"date":"2012-02-05T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2017-09-19T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:28:02","slug":"double-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2012\/02\/05\/double-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night in London SFX magazine announced the winners of their annual readers&#8217;s awards, and I am pleased and proud to report that A DANCE WITH DRAGONS won for Best Novel, and HBO&#8217;s GAME OF THRONES as Best New TV Show.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;260&#8243;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I was not able to be in the UK for the awards (though I will be, come April, for Eastercon, and signings in Bath and London), so I taped my acceptance speech ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for everyone who voted&#8230; and to all my readers everywhere, who waited for the book so patiently, and have received it with so much enthusiasm and acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>(For a full list of winners, check out the SFX website.  And do be sure to play Neil Gaiman&#8217;s acceptance speech, it&#8217;s a hoot and a half.)<\/p>\n<p>((Now all I need to make the day perfect is a Giants victory in the SuperBowl.  GO BIG BLUE!!)) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night in London SFX magazine announced the winners of their annual readers&#8217;s awards, and I am pleased and proud to report that A DANCE WITH DRAGONS won for Best Novel, and HBO&#8217;s GAME OF THRONES as Best New TV Show. &lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;260&#8243;\/&gt; I was not able to be in the UK for the awards [&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":[239,29,16,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}