{"id":2660,"date":"2011-03-30T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:18:41","slug":"watch-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/03\/30\/watch-the-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Skies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader named Christian Johannesen has pointed out that in my announcement of the publication date of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, I wrote:  &#8220;Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christian goes on to say:<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;March 11, 2011:  Big Tsunami  &#8211;  Ohh No!  I hope release date hasn&#8217;t gotten pushed back again!!!!!!!&#8230;&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;March 11, 2011 NFL CBA talks break down.  Seems like a general strike in the NFL is eminent.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;March 19, 2011  On top of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the US along with 20 other countries attack Libyan forces loyal to Gadhafi.  World War? <\/p>\n<p>     Please remove the asteroid strikes from your update before you become quadrupley prophetic.  I&#8217;m too young to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which I can only reply:<\/p>\n<p>      (1) I am writing as fast as I can.  Finished a Meereen chapter yesterday, hope to finish another one today, and <\/p>\n<p>      (2) WATCH THE SKIES! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader named Christian Johannesen has pointed out that in my announcement of the publication date of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, I wrote: &#8220;Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12.&#8221; Christian goes on to say: &#8220;March 11, 2011: Big Tsunami &#8211; Ohh [&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":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"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=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}