{"id":2970,"date":"2010-07-16T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2017-09-21T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:10:47","slug":"nailed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/07\/16\/nailed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nailed It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, you guys are good.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you got it.  The third and final part I hinted at is the Old Bear, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, and the actor playing him is the fabulous James Cosmo.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that I referenced BRAVEHEART or TROY or any of his other numerous film credits, you folks would use IMDB and ferret him out in seconds, so I went all the way to my childhood as a funny book fan for a clue &#8212; a short-lived comic that lasted only six issues half a century ago, called COSMO THE MERRY MARTIAN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000ba6s3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/000ba6s3\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cosmo was published by Archie Comics, hence the &#8220;jugheads&#8221; reference in my last post.<\/p>\n<p>As for James Cosmo, well, he really doesn&#8217;t need much in the way of introduction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000bbtpk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240271\" width=\"165\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000bchte\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240272\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/000bd2gq\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240273\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could show you his audition.  He blew away a dozen other strong contenders, including some very fine actors and household names.  He will be an AMAZING Old Bear.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for Froggy&#8217;s clues for now.<\/p>\n<p>But brace for a big announcement from HBO, with lots more names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, you guys are good. Yes, you got it. The third and final part I hinted at is the Old Bear, Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, and the actor playing him is the fabulous James Cosmo. I knew that I referenced BRAVEHEART or TROY or any of his other numerous film credits, you folks would use [&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],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"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=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2971,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}