{"id":7173,"date":"2021-09-11T09:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2021-08-28T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T04:58:15","slug":"who-is-that-strange-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/09\/11\/who-is-that-strange-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is That Strange Dude?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of strange stuff on YouTube.\u00a0\u00a0 I never know what I&#8217;m going to stumble on.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I stumble on myself.\u00a0\u00a0 As in this interview from 1991 (or so it says), where I pontificate about science fiction and fandom.<\/p>\n<p>(In those days, five years before A GAME OF THRONES was published, science fiction was what they asked about when they interviewed me.\u00a0\u00a0 When they bothered to interview me at all).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Flashback Friday - George R.R. Martin Interview (1991)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZO1EHuSnJWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have absolutely no memory of this interview.\u00a0\u00a0 Where I was, who was intervieweing me, why&#8230;\u00a0 none of that.<\/p>\n<p>I remember those glasses, though.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember that hair.\u00a0\u00a0 My hair was dark brown when I was young.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I got older, it went to gray and then white.\u00a0\u00a0 Judging from this clip, I guess 1991 was when it changed, but I don&#8217;t ever recall it being half-and-half like that, or having a dark beard with white hair.\u00a0\u00a0 But I guess I did.<\/p>\n<p>Blasts from the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of strange stuff on YouTube.\u00a0\u00a0 I never know what I&#8217;m going to stumble on. Sometimes I stumble on myself.\u00a0\u00a0 As in this interview from 1991 (or so it says), where I pontificate about science fiction and fandom. (In those days, five years before A GAME OF THRONES was published, science fiction was [&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":[62,12],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173"}],"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=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}