{"id":30,"date":"2014-02-02T21:49:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:17:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:17:26","slug":"a-song-of-ice-and-fire-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song of Ice and Fire (so far)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Don&#8217;t worry, no spoilers.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to the audiobooks of\u00a0<em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>. Just finished book 3 and started on 4. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, on the whole I&#8217;m really really enjoying them. However there are a few things worth commenting on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The narrator is enjoying the &#8220;Hodor&#8221; bits a little too much.\u00a0<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-30-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hodorama.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hodorama.mp3\">https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/hodorama.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/li>\n<li>Tywin Lannister does seem to be doing a really bad Winston Churchill impression.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Obviously being an audiobook, I&#8217;ve no idea how some of the names are spelled (until I started looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/awoiaf.westeros.org\/\">the wiki<\/a>). So one unfortunate character will forever in my mind be known as &#8220;Sir Anus Fray&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I was warned by a friend to expect a lot of the phrase &#8220;nipples on breastplates&#8221;. This doesn&#8217;t seem to have cropped up yet, but I did notice pe<\/span>ople do seem to be &#8220;taken in the rear&#8221; quite a lot (fnar fnar). And\u00a0<em>everything<\/em> lasts &#8220;half a heartbeat&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You know nothing, Jon Snow&#8221; took a while to show up, but oh lord when it did, it really did. Easy to see why it became a meme.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Grrrr&#8230; I&#8217;ve just started on Book 4 and the narrator seems to have decided to slightly change his pronunciation of a bunch of characters and places. Because it wasn&#8217;t hard enough keeping track of them all already.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Don&#8217;t worry, no spoilers.) I&#8217;ve been listening to the audiobooks of\u00a0A Song of Ice and Fire. Just finished book 3 and started on 4. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, on the whole I&#8217;m really really enjoying them. However there are a few things worth commenting on: The narrator is enjoying the &#8220;Hodor&#8221; bits a little too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-so-far\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Song of Ice and Fire (so far)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}