{"id":22585,"date":"2018-01-05T14:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/05\/truly-game-of-thrones-fans-the-wait-for-season-eight-will-make-it-sweeter-stuart-heritage\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:38:46","slug":"truly-game-of-thrones-fans-the-wait-for-season-eight-will-make-it-sweeter-stuart-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=22585","title":{"rendered":"Truly, Game of Thrones fans, the wait for season eight will make it sweeter | Stuart Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I am desperate to know what happens next. But in an age of instant gratification, we\u2019ve forgotten the joys of anticipationGame of Thrones won\u2019t return until 2019, and people are angry. Forget the explanations for the delay \u2013 after all, if it\u2019s winter in Westeros, it\u2019s probably sensible to shoot in winter \u2013 the yowls of disappointment ringing out across the internet have been hard to miss.Because Game of Thrones is the biggest TV show on television. It\u2019s Dallas with dragons. It\u2019s EastEnders with nudity. It\u2019s The Apprentice with a very slightly more liberal worldview. And we\u2019re so close to the end (SPOILERS). The enemy is at the gate. An ice dragon is blue-flaming down the barricades. A man is unwittingly having it off with his auntie on a boat. The climax is so near, and so tantalisingly out of reach. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jan\/05\/game-of-thrones-2019-delay-television\" target=\"_blank\">Truly, Game of Thrones fans, the wait for season eight will make it sweeter | Stuart Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I am desperate to know what happens next. But in an age of instant gratification, we\u2019ve forgotten the joys of anticipationGame of Thrones won\u2019t return until 2019, and people are angry. Forget the explanations for the delay \u2013 after all, if it\u2019s winter in Westeros, it\u2019s probably sensible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}