{"id":12871,"date":"2013-06-04T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2013-06-04T09:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:47:45","slug":"you-know-nothing-jon-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=12871","title":{"rendered":"You Know Nothing, Jon Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/divorcing-hbo-sundays-brutal-game-of-thrones-goes-way-too-far\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-06-04 at 8.16.30 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2853\/8949727888_69c10a4279_m.jpg\" width=\"237\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/divorcing-hbo-sundays-brutal-game-of-thrones-goes-way-too-far\/\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s for real<\/a>. Displeased with the storyline of HBO&#8217;s <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, this writer declares that HBO has gone too far and has vowed to quit watching.<\/p>\n<p>The issue, of course, is Sunday&#8217;s notorious Red Wedding episode, familiar to every reader of George R.R. Martin&#8217;s ongoing\u00a0<em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> saga, the books on which the HBO series is based. Readers have been biting their tongues all season, knowing what&#8217;s coming but not wanting to spoil things for spouses and family members who haven&#8217;t read the books.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, this guy hasn&#8217;t. And one might wonder what kind of books he has read, if he reads at all. Was he home-schooled? Did overprotective parents read him insipid pick-your-own-ending stories when he was little? Is that where he got the notion that <em>GOT<\/em>\u00a0should be less like life and more like the <em>Berenstain Bears<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> is like life; that&#8217;s what I love about it. Shit happens. Life happens. You know nothing, Jon Snow.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, I won&#8217;t spoil the Red Wedding for you. If you haven&#8217;t read the books or watched Sunday&#8217;s episode yet, you may not want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2013\/06\/04\/last-supper-the-real-life-massacre-that-inspired-the-game-of-thrones-red-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Time Magazine article<\/a>. If you have, though, you might find it interesting: much of what GRRM writes is based on historical events, and behind the Red Wedding lurks Scotland&#8217;s notorious Black Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing: from the animated map shown at the beginning of every HBO <em>Game of Thrones <\/em>episode, you might have gotten the impression that Westeros is a rather small place. Think larger. Think Europe.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/quora\/2013\/03\/27\/game_of_thornes_are_the_kingdoms_of_westeros_inspired_by_real_life_countries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s an interesting look<\/a> at the real-world geography on which Westeros is based.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m a fan boy. Sue me. I love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shit happens. Life happens. You know nothing, Jon Snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,7,64,16,414],"tags":[656,1250],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews","category-culture","category-history","category-media","category-tv","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-red-wedding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12882,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}