{"id":4900,"date":"2014-05-21T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:45:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T04:45:17","slug":"winter-is-always-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/winter-is-always-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is always coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not quite worth inclusion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/references.html\">List of Iowa References<\/a>, but Kyle Munson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/kyle-munson\/2014\/05\/21\/game-thrones-series-ex-iowa-professor-wrote-kyle-munson\/2303526\/\">writes that author George R.R. Martin spent time in Iowa<\/a>:\u00a0<em>&#8220;I think a lot of the stuff in &#8216;A Game of Thrones,&#8217; &#8221; the author told Vanity Fair, &#8220;the snow and ice and freezing, comes from my memories of Dubuque.&#8221;\u00a0(The northern edge of the Seven Kingdoms is a 300-mile-long, 700-foot-tall wall of solid ice; Iowa hasn&#8217;t yet provided such fortification at the Minnesota border to protect us from polkas, hot dishes and rabid walleyes.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(But would a wall of solid ice stand as a defense against a gang of tunneling Gophers? &#8211; ed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not quite worth inclusion in the List of Iowa References, but Kyle Munson writes that author George R.R. Martin spent time in Iowa:\u00a0&#8220;I think a lot of the stuff in &#8216;A Game of Thrones,&#8217; &#8221; the author told Vanity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/winter-is-always-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}