{"id":5460,"date":"2019-05-13T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2019-05-13T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T23:08:35","slug":"idiocy-on-the-internet-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2019\/05\/13\/idiocy-on-the-internet-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiocy on the Internet, Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Okay, this one is true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At the Q&amp;A following the premiere of the new TOLKIEN film in Los Angeles last week, I did indeed say that Gandalf could kick Dumbledore&#8217;s ass.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5464\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4919-e1557779750470-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4919-e1557779750470-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_4919-e1557779750470-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Got a nice laugh. Which was good. Cause it was a joke, y&#8217;know.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Which doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Gandalf <em><strong>COULD<\/strong><\/em> kick Dumbledore&#8217;s ass. I mean, duh. He&#8217;s a maia, folks. Next best thing to a demigod. Gandalf dies and come back. Dumbledore dies and stays dead.<\/p>\r\n<p>But if it will calm down all the Potterites out there, let me say that Gandalf could kick Melisandre&#8217;s ass too.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one is true. At the Q&amp;A following the premiere of the new TOLKIEN film in Los Angeles last week, I did indeed say that Gandalf could kick Dumbledore&#8217;s ass. Got a nice laugh. Which was good. Cause it was a joke, y&#8217;know. Which doesn&#8217;t mean it isn&#8217;t true. Gandalf COULD kick Dumbledore&#8217;s ass. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/5460"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}