{"id":3136,"date":"2010-03-23T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:31:48","slug":"odds-and-ends-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/03\/23\/odds-and-ends-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still not 100%, but I&#8217;m up to at least 98%, as the last of the crud fades away.<\/p>\n<p>However, my assistant Ty is now sick.  He went home early today.  A pity, since he has a lot to celebrate right now &#8212; the sale of his first novel (well, half-novel, it was a collaboration.  And no, not with me, don&#8217;t get all wiggy out there).<\/p>\n<p>Please STOP posting comments to the Health Care topic.  I let that one run a good long while, more than four hundred messages and lots of impassionated debate, but I don&#8217;t want it to drag on forever.  Everything worth saying has been said.  <\/p>\n<p>(Though I wonder if anyone was convinced.  Sometimes I question whether these discussions do the least bit of good.  Everyone seems so entrenched in their positions, so unwilling to listen to the other side.  Just once I&#8217;d love to read a comment that said, &#8216;I used to think X, but you&#8217;ve convinced me.&#8217;  Slim chance, I know).<\/p>\n<p>Being under the weather for a couple weeks there has put me seriously behind on everything, I&#8217;m afraid.  I&#8217;m now struggling to get back into it.  In addition to the on-going work on DANCE, I am also trying to wrap up FORT FREAK, volume twenty-one in the Wild Cards series, and will soon need to gear up to write my season one script for HBO.  I&#8217;m been over a decade since I last did a teleplay, I realized suddenly.  I hope I still remember how.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the part of Catelyn on HBO&#8217;s GAME OF THRONES has been recast.  The new actress is Michelle Fairley, a talented and acclaimed veteran of the British and Irish stage and television.  That&#8217;s being discussed in several places on the web, most notably Westeros and Winter Is Coming, so take your comments, questions, and thoughts there, if you&#8217;d be so good.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more news, both bad and good, on several different fronts, none of which I am at liberty to talk about just now.  Soon, maybe. <\/p>\n<p>On Suvudu, Jaime is about to face a dragon. Hoo boy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still not 100%, but I&#8217;m up to at least 98%, as the last of the crud fades away. However, my assistant Ty is now sick. He went home early today. A pity, since he has a lot to celebrate right now &#8212; the sale of his first novel (well, half-novel, it was a collaboration. And [&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\/3136"}],"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=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}