{"id":2670,"date":"2011-03-25T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:23:06","slug":"win-a-trip-to-westeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/03\/25\/win-a-trip-to-westeros\/","title":{"rendered":"Win a Trip to Westeros!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or at least to Northern Ireland, which is about the closest we can come in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Television has just announced a contest to help promote the April 18 debut of GAME OF THRONES in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize winners gets a week in Northern Ireland, with accomodation  at the Killyleagh Castle Towers as well as a trip to Castle Ward and Tollymore Forest Park, major locations while filming the show. &#8220;Rumour has it that it contains magical woodland and mysterious medieval ruins!&#8221; sayeth Sky.  (And maybe you can wheedle a visit to Castle Black as well, though that doesn&#8217;t seem to be on the itinerary).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000f71cy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x48031\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five runners up will win a tie in edition of Game of Thrones book and a set of all four titles in the Song of Fire and Ice series.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for the contest, go to:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/rewards.sky.com\/skyloyalty\/home\/competitions\/game-of-thrones-competition\/?DCMP=snt-Games_of_Thrones_Sky_Twitter_Mar11<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the contest is only open to SKY subscribers resident in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, but I haven&#8217;t looked closely at the rules, so maybe someone who has can confirm that.<\/p>\n<p>I have never stayed at Killyleagh Castle Towers myself, but Parris and I both loved Belfast.  Where they once built the TITANIC&#8230; and, as all the Belfast cabbies will tell you, a lot of ships that didn&#8217;t sink. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or at least to Northern Ireland, which is about the closest we can come in the real world. Sky Television has just announced a contest to help promote the April 18 debut of GAME OF THRONES in the United Kingdom. The grand prize winners gets a week in Northern Ireland, with accomodation at the [&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\/2670"}],"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=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}