{"id":6743,"date":"2020-12-10T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T23:31:55","slug":"ive-been-parodied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/12\/10\/ive-been-parodied\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Parodied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way way back in 1969, when the world and I were young, the Harvard Lampoon did a hilarious send-up of Tolkien and LORD OF THE RINGS, called BORED OF THE RINGS.\u00a0\u00a0 It is still in print all these years later.\u00a0\u00a0 Spam and Dildo, Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt, Pepsi and Moxie&#8230; a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I guess, it is my turn.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Lampoon has turned its sights on A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE and come up with LAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6744\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LameOfThronesCover.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LameOfThronesCover.jpeg 427w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LameOfThronesCover-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, they sent me a copy.<\/p>\n<p>No, I have not looked at it yet.\u00a0\u00a0 I am working up the courage.<\/p>\n<p>Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say&#8230; but parody is right up there, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.\u00a0\u00a0 I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way way back in 1969, when the world and I were young, the Harvard Lampoon did a hilarious send-up of Tolkien and LORD OF THE RINGS, called BORED OF THE RINGS.\u00a0\u00a0 It is still in print all these years later.\u00a0\u00a0 Spam and Dildo, Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt, Pepsi and Moxie&#8230; a hoot. And now, I [&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":[50,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743"}],"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=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6746,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}