{"id":8814,"date":"2024-06-22T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T20:23:14","slug":"dunk-takes-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2024\/06\/22\/dunk-takes-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunk Takes the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a tournament in Ashford Meadow, and a hedge knight who wants to enter.\u00a0\u00a0 He call himself Ser Duncan the Tall, but goes by Dunk to his friends.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Dunk the Lunk, thick as a castle wall,&#8221; some will say, but he means to be a champion.<\/p>\n<p>Provided he can scrape up enough coin for some armor.<\/p>\n<p>Dunk&#8217;s a large lad, and good steel does not come cheap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8815\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dunk.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dunk.webp 640w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dunk-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/dunk-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Claffey will be playing our favorite hedge knight, and he&#8217;s already been sighted around Ashford.\u00a0\u00a0 HBO was kind enough to provide a picture&#8230; and hot damn, he looks as though he just stepped out of the pages of LEGENDS.<\/p>\n<p>Filming started last week in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where much of the original GAME OF THRONES as shot.\u00a0\u00a0 Based on my novella &#8220;The Hedge Knight,&#8221; the new show will debut in 2025.\u00a0\u00a0 Only six episodes for this one.\u00a0 A novella is considerably shorter than a novel (particularly one of <em>my<\/em> novels), so there&#8217;s less source material.<\/p>\n<p>I hear that everything is going very well just now.\u00a0\u00a0 Next month I will get to see for myself.\u00a0\u00a0 Parris and I will be taking a few of our minions over to Belfast in mid July, to visit the set, meet the cast, and take in some jousting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a tournament in Ashford Meadow, and a hedge knight who wants to enter.\u00a0\u00a0 He call himself Ser Duncan the Tall, but goes by Dunk to his friends.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Dunk the Lunk, thick as a castle wall,&#8221; some will say, but he means to be a champion. Provided he can scrape up enough coin for some [&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":[15,11,323,319],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814"}],"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=8814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8820,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8814\/revisions\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}