{"id":4394,"date":"2016-06-18T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/battle-of-the-procrastinators-game-of-thrones-is-really-about-how-we-waste-time\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T15:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T07:00:51","slug":"battle-of-the-procrastinators-game-of-thrones-is-really-about-how-we-waste-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/18\/battle-of-the-procrastinators-game-of-thrones-is-really-about-how-we-waste-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Procrastinators: 'Game of Thrones' is really about how we waste time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Obligatory warning: Here be mild spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6, episode 8.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

There couldn’t be a stranger place to start a story about Game of Thrones <\/i>than by talking about a Joni Mitchell song.\u00a0But given that this is also a story about procrastination, it seems entirely appropriate.<\/p>\n

My favorite of Joni’s hits is “California.” Not just because she serenades the state where I live, but because its bright melody barely hides its ambiguity. Right after listing all the reasons she wants to go home to California, she sings: “So I bought me a ticket, I caught a plane to … Spain.”<\/p>\n

Anyone who has bummed around the world \u2014 and a girl who went to Braavos and back when she had a To Do list to check off in Westeros the whole time \u2014 can relate.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Obligatory warning: Here be mild spoilers for Game of Thrones season 6, episode 8.\u00a0 There couldn’t be a stranger place to start a story about Game of Thrones than by talking about a Joni Mitchell song.\u00a0But given that this is … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1118,1202,810],"class_list":["post-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-opinion","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}