{"id":4739,"date":"2018-05-22T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2018-05-27T20:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T20:58:35","slug":"the-great-american-read-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2018\/05\/22\/the-great-american-read-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Read is On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tonight the eight part series that celebrates the power of reading begins on PBS.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the two-hour launch episode reveal the list of 100 books, follow along with the five one-hour theme episodes that examine concepts common to groups of books on the list, and a finale, in which the results of a nationwide vote to choose America\u2019s best-loved book is announced.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out the PBS home page to see the list of all 100 books and vote for your favorite read. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/the-great-american-read\/home\/<\/p>\n<p>We Minions noticed Game of Thrones floating around on the list along with some of our other all time favorites, such as; The Great Gatsby, Outlander, Catch &#8211; 22, The Hitch-Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy, Tales of the City, Ready Player One and Many more, too many to list here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\ud83d\ude09<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4740\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DX2uZ2wWAAA32ax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DX2uZ2wWAAA32ax.jpg 819w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DX2uZ2wWAAA32ax-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DX2uZ2wWAAA32ax-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow the link to learn how you can vote for your favorite book on The Great American Read.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/the-great-american-read\/books\/#\/<\/p>\n<p>Read on, America READ ON!<\/p>\n<p>#greatreadpbs<\/p>\n<p>@GreatAmericanReadPBS<\/p>\n<p>THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MRCF_qIPvnM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER\u00a0 Tonight the eight part series that celebrates the power of reading begins on PBS. Watch the two-hour launch episode reveal the list of 100 books, follow along with the five one-hour theme episodes that examine concepts common to groups of books on the list, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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\/4739"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}