{"id":3178,"date":"2010-03-01T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:59:37","slug":"the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/03\/01\/the-ides-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; March is upon us.  The month when HBO will announce its decision on A GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know, I know, it is not actually the Ides until March 15, but the phrase is so fraught with drama I could not resist).<\/p>\n<p>I have absolutely no idea whether &#8220;March&#8221; will translate to &#8220;early March&#8221; or &#8220;the end of March.&#8221;  The decision could be announced today, for all I know.  Or maybe they will make us all wait until March 31.  The Ides&#8230; well, maybe not.  I don&#8217;t know if I can wait another fifteen days, and anyway that date has ominous connotations.  &#8220;Beware the Ides of March,&#8221; and all that.  So please let us know before that, HBO.<\/p>\n<p>From the start of this, I&#8217;ve told myself, &#8220;Don&#8217;t get too emotionally invested in this, or you will be devastated if it doesn&#8217;t go.&#8221;  Wise words, those.  I&#8217;m a smart guy.<\/p>\n<p>But easier said than done.  I&#8217;ve failed.  I am totally emotionally invested, and if HBO does indeed decide to pass, for whatever reason, I will be gutted.  <\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s all hope I am soon doing the happy dance instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; March is upon us. The month when HBO will announce its decision on A GAME OF THRONES. (Yes, I know, I know, it is not actually the Ides until March 15, but the phrase is so fraught with drama I could not resist). I have absolutely no idea whether &#8220;March&#8221; will translate to &#8220;early [&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":[256,15],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"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=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3179,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}