{"id":2701,"date":"2011-03-11T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2017-09-19T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:40:24","slug":"roy-sets-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2011\/03\/11\/roy-sets-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Sets a Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my friend Roy Dotrice, who has been officially awarded a world&#8217;s record for his audibook performance of A GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>They sent him a certificate and everything:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000epkfw\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s640x480148\" width=\"315\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I especially like the stain on the certificate, obviously meant to suggest the ring left by a mug of Guinness Stout).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I am not sure how long this particular record will stand.  In fact, I think Roy may well have broken it already with his recordings for A CLASH OF KINGS and (especially) A STORM OF SWORDS.  But I will leave the Guinness people to sort that out.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, yes, we are doing all we can to make sure it is Roy Dotrice who will record the audiobook for A DANCE WITH DRAGONS.  He was my choice to begin with, and remains so.  So you can all stop sending me emails and messages.  I&#8217;m with you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my friend Roy Dotrice, who has been officially awarded a world&#8217;s record for his audibook performance of A GAME OF THRONES. They sent him a certificate and everything: (I especially like the stain on the certificate, obviously meant to suggest the ring left by a mug of Guinness Stout). Of course, I am [&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":[256,166,270],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}