{"id":2332,"date":"2011-11-14T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:06:37","slug":"books-for-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/11\/14\/books-for-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, come the holiday season, we get a lot of orders for the signed books offered on my website:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgerrmartin.com\/books.html\">http:\/\/www.georgerrmartin.com\/books.html<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The biggest rush is in early and mid-December, from readers planning to use the books as Christmas gifts.  Often the buyers send extra money for priority mail, to make sure the books arrived by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all great.  Usually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000317xe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x480116\" width=\"318\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But this year, it&#8217;s not going to work.  I am heading east the first couple of weeks of December, for reasons I cannot disclose yet, so I won&#8217;t be here to sign books or ship them.  And when I return, mid-month, I&#8217;m going to be too busy digging out from under and doing my own holiday shopping to deal with orders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0002fe2b\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x480117\" width=\"311\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, we&#8217;ll be closing the &#8220;bookstore&#8221; on December 1.  It will not reopen until the new year, after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>So if anyone out there is thinking of giving an autographed title of one of my old books as a Christmas present, please place your order in the next two weeks.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000ka2qg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x480118\" width=\"306\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks.  (And happy reading and happy holidays to all).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000k9hfh\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x480119\" width=\"324\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, come the holiday season, we get a lot of orders for the signed books offered on my website: http:\/\/www.georgerrmartin.com\/books.html The biggest rush is in early and mid-December, from readers planning to use the books as Christmas gifts. Often the buyers send extra money for priority mail, to make sure the books arrived by [&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":[28,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332"}],"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=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}