{"id":7356,"date":"2021-12-10T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:44:39","slug":"huzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2021\/12\/10\/huzzah\/","title":{"rendered":"Huzzah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE GREAT is insane&#8230; and insanely good.<\/p>\n<p>The second season came started streaming recently, and Parris and I have binged the whole thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I would not recommend the series as a way to pass your course in Russian history, mind you.\u00a0\u00a0 Certain&#8230; ahem&#8230; liberties have been taken.\u00a0\u00a0 But as entertainment, we love it.\u00a0\u00a0 It is funny, exciting, full of twists and turns and an amazing cast of characters.\u00a0\u00a0 And bawdy.\u00a0 Very very bawdy.\u00a0 You thought there was a lot of sex in GAME OF THRONES?\u00a0 Hoo hah.\u00a0\u00a0 The dialogue is sharp, witty, often laugh out loud hilarious, and the cast&#8230; there are a LOT of fine actors in this one, but I have to single out Nicholas Hoult.\u00a0\u00a0 His take on Tsar Peter III is a delight&#8230; and it still boggles me when I remind myself that this is the same guy who played J.R.R. T0lkien so well in TOLKIEN.\u00a0 That&#8217;s some range.<\/p>\n<p>HUZZAH!<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where they can possibly go third season&#8230; though likely not where history went.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7360\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-great-season-2-trailer-1024x625.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-great-season-2-trailer-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-great-season-2-trailer-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-great-season-2-trailer-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/the-great-season-2-trailer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GREAT is insane&#8230; and insanely good. The second season came started streaming recently, and Parris and I have binged the whole thing.\u00a0\u00a0 I would not recommend the series as a way to pass your course in Russian history, mind you.\u00a0\u00a0 Certain&#8230; ahem&#8230; liberties have been taken.\u00a0\u00a0 But as entertainment, we love it.\u00a0\u00a0 It is [&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":[11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356"}],"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=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7361,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}