{"id":8126,"date":"2023-03-29T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T04:35:34","slug":"dragons-dragons-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2023\/03\/29\/dragons-dragons-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragons, Dragons Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can never have too many dragons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8127\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-1024x830.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-1024x830.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-1536x1245.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0152-2048x1659.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My thanks to all of the attendees of last year&#8217;s Dragoncon, and to all the Dragon Award voters who chose ELDEN RING as the best game of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 Like all my friends at From Software, I am thrilled that you enjoyed the play&#8230; as challenging as it can be.<\/p>\n<p>The trophy is a striking one as well.\u00a0\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t able to attend the awards ceremony, but the Dragoncon folks were kind enough to ship it, and it just turned up here a couple of weeks ago, just before I left for a visit to HBO in LA.<\/p>\n<p>I have other sorts of dragons too, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 Like this guy:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8129\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-994x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-994x1024.jpg 994w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-768x791.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-1491x1536.jpg 1491w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0177-Copy-1989x2048.jpg 1989w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not an award&#8230; but he is a handsome fellow all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can never have too many dragons. My thanks to all of the attendees of last year&#8217;s Dragoncon, and to all the Dragon Award voters who chose ELDEN RING as the best game of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 Like all my friends at From Software, I am thrilled that you enjoyed the play&#8230; as challenging as it [&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":[218],"tags":[29,30,322],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126"}],"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=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}