{"id":15687,"date":"2012-05-20T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=15687"},"modified":"2012-05-20T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T01:09:05","slug":"while-im-waiting-for-game-of-thrones-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/while-im-waiting-for-game-of-thrones-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"While I&#8217;m Waiting for Game of Thrones to Start &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to brag that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefrisky.com\/2012-05-17\/wendy-brandes-jewelry-reminds-us-of-game-of-thrones\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Gerstein of The Frisky<\/a> thinks my jewelry designs are &#8220;very reminiscent of Cersei, Sansa, Dany and the lot.&#8221; Woot!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15688\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefrisky.com\/2012-05-17\/wendy-brandes-jewelry-reminds-us-of-game-of-thrones\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15688\" class=\" wp-image-15688 \" title=\"frisky\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/frisky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/frisky.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/frisky-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read the story on The Frisky.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see my jewelry on any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/game-of-thrones\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a> ladies, but let&#8217;s not forget about Peter Dinklage, who won an Emmy for playing the devious &#8212; but sometimes honorable and always funny &#8212; Tyrion Lannister. I&#8217;ve been a fan of his since his breakout role in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestationagent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Station Agent<\/em><\/a> in 2003. Not only was he great in that movie, but he was also totally gracious when I bumped into him at a party and drunkenly slurred, &#8220;If I could vote for the Oscars, I&#8217;d vote for you for Best Actor.&#8221; I&#8217;m lucky that he was feeling tolerant, because according to <a href=\"http:\/\/au.ibtimes.com\/articles\/339313\/20120510\/peter-dinklage-game-thrones-tyrion-lannister-rolling.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this month&#8217;s Rolling Stone cover story on Dinklage<\/a>, he can be a littler ornery. In an amusing way, of course.\u00a0 (I laughed when he said one of Dany&#8217;s CGI dragons is a partier and one is a bit of a dick. I don&#8217;t think he had an opinion on the third.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15689\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15689\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15689\" title=\"peterdinklage\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/peterdinklage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/peterdinklage.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/peterdinklage-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worth reading!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Peter needs to wear my Empress Wu dragon cufflinks to his next awards show appearance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15690\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Empress-Wu-Dragon-Cufflinks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15690\" title=\"DRAGON_Cufflionks_Zoom__13600_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DRAGON_Cufflionks_Zoom__13600_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DRAGON_Cufflionks_Zoom__13600_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DRAGON_Cufflionks_Zoom__13600_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DRAGON_Cufflionks_Zoom__13600_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Empress Wu cufflinks. Click for more information.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d do these cufflinks for Peter in yellow gold with black pearls and ruby eyes. I&#8217;d make sure one dragon would be a partier and the other a bit of a dick, so that he&#8217;d feel at home. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to brag that Julie Gerstein of The Frisky thinks my jewelry designs are &#8220;very reminiscent of Cersei, Sansa, Dany and the lot.&#8221; Woot! I&#8217;d love to see my jewelry on any of the Game of Thrones ladies, but let&#8217;s not forget about Peter Dinklage, who won an Emmy for playing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/while-im-waiting-for-game-of-thrones-to-start\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141,16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cufflinks","8":"category-press","9":"category-tv","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15692,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions\/15692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}