{"id":2675,"date":"2011-03-17T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:24:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:24:05","slug":"if-i-had-a-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/03\/17\/if-i-had-a-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Had a Hammer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I&#8217;d hammer some more on Kong, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, but I CAN have a hammer.  And so can you, thanks to the good folks at Valyrian Steel, who have just unveiled their design for King Robert&#8217;s warhammer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000f6esb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x48026\" width=\"293\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alas, you can&#8217;t order the hammer just yet.  We&#8217;re still in the design stage, but I have approved these drawings, so the next step is the prototype, which is now being made.  Once I approve that, production can begin.  And along about there somewhere, Valyrian Steel will begin taking orders.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, check out their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valyriansteel.com\/\">http:\/\/www.valyriansteel.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is a big hammer.  A very big hammer.  Going to be heavy as well.  I insisted on that.  After all, it says right in the book that Robert&#8217;s warhammer was so huge and heavy that only someone with his own freakish strength could wield it.  So I kept telling them, &#8220;bigger, bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valyrian Steel has done some lovely versions of Longclaw, Needle, and Ice (all of which remain available from their store), but I think the hammer is my favorite to date. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I&#8217;d hammer some more on Kong, actually. Hey, but I CAN have a hammer. And so can you, thanks to the good folks at Valyrian Steel, who have just unveiled their design for King Robert&#8217;s warhammer. Alas, you can&#8217;t order the hammer just yet. We&#8217;re still in the design stage, but I have approved [&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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}