{"id":346,"date":"2009-05-16T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2009-05-16T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T21:16:19","slug":"finally-some-game-of-thrones-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Finally &#8211; some &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347\" title=\"peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566.jpg\" alt=\"peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566\" width=\"550\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566.jpg 550w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/peterdinklage-thumb-550x249-17566-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good old <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/05\/peter-dinklage-joins-cast.php\">SciFi Wire is reporting<\/a> that the above-pictured Peter Dinklage has signed on to the HBO adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/\">George R. R. Martin<\/a>&#8216;s Game of Thrones.\u00a0 This is great news for so many resons.\u00a0 Lets list them, shall we?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This means there actually is a project.\u00a0 Up until now, there was talk, but little or nothing concrete.<\/li>\n<li>Dinklage is perfect to play Tyrion, a brilliant and complex character who is also a dwarf.\u00a0 When I started reading this series, I was floored at how much there was to this character.\u00a0 Although there are many aspects to the story which don&#8217;t concern Tyrion, the material that revolves around him and his supremely f-&#8216;d up family is, in my opinion, the best part of the book.<\/li>\n<li>Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0565336\/\">Thomas McCarthy<\/a> is Dinklage&#8217;s running partner from the Station Agent.\u00a0 HBO&#8217;s choice of McCarthy tells me a lot about how important Tyrion&#8217;s character will be to this adaptation and that is outstanding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m not expecting anything to actually air anytime soon, but at least the thing is moving forward and there some good thinking about how to do this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good old SciFi Wire is reporting that the above-pictured Peter Dinklage has signed on to the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin&#8216;s Game of Thrones.\u00a0 This is great news for so many resons.\u00a0 Lets list them, shall we? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=346\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,12,264],"tags":[331,330,51,334,332,329,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}