{"id":757,"date":"2015-10-10T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2017-06-30T01:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:14:19","slug":"the-last-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/10\/10\/the-last-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this Not A Blog will know that I am a big fan of historical fiction, especially medieval historical fiction.  Nigel Tranter, Maurice Druon, Thomas B. Costain, Sharon Kay Penman, Cecelia Holland&#8230; and especiall Bernard Cornwell, who writes the best battles of any writer who has ever lived.<\/p>\n<p>Cornwell is best known for his Sharpe series, mainly because that&#8217;s the one that was made into a TV series (starring a young Sean Bean,<i><b> who did not die<\/b><\/i>).  But now he&#8217;s got a second show coming: THE LAST KINGDOM, based on his novels about Uhtred of Northumbria.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;612&#8243;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The opening title sequence is pretty cool too&#8230; graphics like GAME OF THRONES meets 300 meets BONANZA.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;613&#8243;\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait!  If the BBC did justice to Cornwell&#8217;s books, this show should kick ass.<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM, A FEW DAYS LATER:  Saw the first episode, and thought it was terrific.  Very faithful to Cornwell&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers of this Not A Blog will know that I am a big fan of historical fiction, especially medieval historical fiction. Nigel Tranter, Maurice Druon, Thomas B. Costain, Sharon Kay Penman, Cecelia Holland&#8230; and especiall Bernard Cornwell, who writes the best battles of any writer who has ever lived. Cornwell is best known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,11],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}