{"id":890,"date":"2015-07-10T18:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:08:47","slug":"home-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/07\/10\/home-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really alone.  Parris is here, and my minions, and the Cocteau staff, and the cats&#8230; but I am not in San Diego at Comicon, and I have to admit, that feels strange.<\/p>\n<p>Staying home was the right decision.  I just got back from Chicago and the Dead shows, and before that it was Europe, and it is hardly as if HBO needed me in San Diego to represent&#8230; not with so much of our cast on hand.  I have so much work to do, I am way behind on everything, and I have a wedding to attend in Jersey in a few weeks, and worldcon after that&#8230; and if truth be told, San Diego has gotten overwhelming in recent years.  There are always good times catching up with friends, and hanging with the cast, but it&#8217;s not as if I can walk the floor anymore and look for old comic books, the way I once did.<\/p>\n<p>Even so&#8230; even so&#8230; it does make me a little sad, not being there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, those of you who are there, be sure and catch THE EXPANSE premiere.  I wish I could.  Everything I&#8217;ve seen suggests that it will be a terrific show.  The books were certainly great.  Say hi to Daniel and Ty for me.<\/p>\n<p>You might also visit the Random House booth to buy a calendar, and drop by the Tor\/ Macmillan booth to buy a stack of books and show your support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really alone. Parris is here, and my minions, and the Cocteau staff, and the cats&#8230; but I am not in San Diego at Comicon, and I have to admit, that feels strange. Staying home was the right decision. I just got back from Chicago and the Dead shows, and before that it was [&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":[101,30,16],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}