{"id":8564,"date":"2024-01-26T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:36:19","slug":"the-choclit-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2024\/01\/26\/the-choclit-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choc&#8217;lit Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My readers sometimes astonish me.<\/p>\n<p>And never more than last week, when the baker and chocolatier\u00a0 at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort left a surprise for Parris and me in our suite:\u00a0 an amazing replica of the throne of the Seven Kingdoms as seen on GAME OF THRONES.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of iron, however, this throne was made entirely of <em>CHOCOLATE.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8566\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_9354-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was, it must be said, a helluva throne, and every bit as delicious as it was imposing.<\/p>\n<p>The dragon was cool too, and he actually breathed fire.<\/p>\n<p>The throne was so large that there was no way we could eat all of it&#8230; but we did give it the old Westerosi try.\u00a0\u00a0 Yum Yum.\u00a0\u00a0 The chocolate dragon and the chocolate skulls came home with us.<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful gesture.\u00a0 I have some amazing fans, as creative as they are generous.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re ever in the Yucatan, the Rosewood Mayakoba is a fantastic place to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My readers sometimes astonish me. And never more than last week, when the baker and chocolatier\u00a0 at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort left a surprise for Parris and me in our suite:\u00a0 an amazing replica of the throne of the Seven Kingdoms as seen on GAME OF THRONES. Instead of iron, however, this throne was made [&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":[89,16],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564"}],"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=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}