{"id":4447,"date":"2016-06-21T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/21\/game-of-thrones-just-took-us-to-school-on-historys-biggest-battles\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:52:01","slug":"game-of-thrones-just-took-us-to-school-on-historys-biggest-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/21\/game-of-thrones-just-took-us-to-school-on-historys-biggest-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"'Game of Thrones' just took us to school on history's biggest battles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warning! Spoilers for Game of Thrones<\/i> Season 6 follow.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

‘The Battle of the Bastards’ was many things. It was <\/span>Game of Thrones<\/i>‘ most expensive episode, costing around $10 million, and it took\u00a0<\/span>25 days to shoot \u2014 another record for the show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And judging by how much of it my wife spent with\u00a0her eyes squeezed nearly shut and her fingers in her ears, HBO\u00a0<\/span>succeeded\u00a0at\u00a0making one of the most tense, violent episodes of TV ever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was also something of a history lesson.\u00a0The episode schooled us in the strategies and the horrors of warfare throughout the ages, from the Roman Empire’s worst defeat to the American Civil War and its gruesome piles of corpses.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Warning! Spoilers for Game of Thrones Season 6 follow. ‘The Battle of the Bastards’ was many things. It was Game of Thrones‘ most expensive episode, costing around $10 million, and it took\u00a025 days to shoot \u2014 another record for the … 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":[739,1118,1579,810,3435],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-game-of-thrones-season-6","tag-tv","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}