{"id":111,"date":"2011-05-24T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2011\/05\/24\/winter-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:44:58","slug":"winter-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2011\/05\/24\/winter-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Is Coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2012advcalendars.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2012advcalendars.jpg?w=680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>Hard to believe because it\u2019s May in South Texas, but I think Winter isn\u2019t just coming but in fact, has arrived. Behold the advance copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/2012-Song-of-Ice-and-Fire-2012-Wall-Calendar\/George-R-R-Martin\/e\/9780345525420\/?itm=4&amp;USRI=picacio\">2012 George R. R. Martin \/ A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar<\/a>, featuring Ned Stark on the cover. \n<p>I flipped through the whole, beautiful, finished printed thing last night for the first time. Whew. Still processing it all, but needless to say, I\u2019m <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">extremely<\/span> proud of it. I hope you folks out there dig it too. I\u2019ll have MUCH, MUCH more on this in the coming days and weeks, including (I hope) some sneak peeks. <\/p>\n<p>The calendar will first go on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\">San Diego Comic Con<\/a> this July where George and I will be signing them at the Bantam booth. I\u2019ll also have calendars available at my own booth too (#4600, I believe?). And then shortly thereafter, I expect the calendars will be available in bookstores everywhere. If you can\u2019t make it to SDCC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345525426\/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=08DR39W3D3A3VJWDKSDR&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=470938631&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\">Amazon will have it in your hands<\/a> as soon as it releases in July.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe because it\u2019s May in South Texas, but I think Winter isn\u2019t just coming but in fact, has arrived. Behold the advance copies of the 2012 George R. R. Martin \/ A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar, featuring Ned Stark on the cover. I flipped through the whole, beautiful, finished printed thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2012advcalendars.jpg?fit=987%2C900","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}