{"id":2496,"date":"2011-07-05T19:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:26:24","slug":"working-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/07\/05\/working-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more monkey down.<\/p>\n<p>Today I delivered the first draft of &#8220;Blackwater&#8221; to Dan and David.  (Finally) A bit overdue, as always.  And probably too long and long expensive, as my scripts always are.  (I got to write the Battle of the Blackwater.  I tried to be good and restrain myself, but you know how things go.  Oh, well.  I knew the job was dangerous when I took it).<\/p>\n<p>This is television&#8230; (no, it&#8217;s not TV, it&#8217;s HBO)&#8230; so there will undoubtedly be many further drafts and revisions.  But the first draft is the hard one.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a good thing it&#8217;s done.  On Sunday I leave for the first leg of my US book tour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more monkey down. Today I delivered the first draft of &#8220;Blackwater&#8221; to Dan and David. (Finally) A bit overdue, as always. And probably too long and long expensive, as my scripts always are. (I got to write the Battle of the Blackwater. I tried to be good and restrain myself, but you know how [&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":[16,15,267],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"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=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}