{"id":3248,"date":"2010-01-15T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:21:24","slug":"needle-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/01\/15\/needle-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Needle Is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a big package from the good folks at Valyrian Steel t&#8217;other day, with my very own copies of Needle.  The sword is back from the foundry and now shipping&#8230; so if any of you have a friend, foe, or relative you&#8217;d like to stick with the pointy end, this is your chance!<\/p>\n<p>Needle was especially made for Arya Stark, as a child&#8217;s version of a bravo&#8217;s blade. Our replica has a 24&#8243; inch long blade (30&#8243; overall) of high carbon steel with full tang. The hilt is cast metal with antique nickel plate and leather wrap. A heraldic display plaque featuring the direwolf of House Stark is included, along with a certificate of authenticity signed by me. This is a limited edition of 2500 swords, and the back of each blade will be laser etched in fine print with the edition number. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/grrm\/pic\/0008ehps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/s320x240263\" width=\"320\" height=\"83\" border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get your own replica of Needle, visit the Valyrian Steel website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valyriansteel.com\/\">http:\/\/www.valyriansteel.com\/<\/a>   The sword is shipping now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a big package from the good folks at Valyrian Steel t&#8217;other day, with my very own copies of Needle. The sword is back from the foundry and now shipping&#8230; so if any of you have a friend, foe, or relative you&#8217;d like to stick with the pointy end, this is your chance! Needle was [&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":[88],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248"}],"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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}