{"id":7821,"date":"2012-11-07T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:35:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T00:35:15","slug":"did-someone-say-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/11\/did-someone-say-game-of-thrones.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Someone Say &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026 No? Well, too  bad. My blog.  <\/p>\n<p>So I just finished reading a Clash of Kings, book 2 in the series, and I was all hyped to sit down and watch Season 2. I got out my television series watching provisions \u2013 wine and chocolate \u2013 and readied myself for a Game of Thrones marathon.<\/p>\n<p>But noooooooooooooo. Is it showing on Netflix? Nope. Hulu? Nada. Amazon? Not there. How about iTunes. Nothing. Not even on HBO unless you\u2019re a subscriber. Bastards! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/11\/20099849.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/66\/2012\/11\/20099849.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20099849\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7823\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clearly I am forced to pirate the series now. I mean, I can\u2019t possibly wait till March of 2013. Don\u2019t judge. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/06\/11\/game-of-thrones-pirated-most-downloaded-shows-torrent_n_1586117.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I\u2019m not the first person<\/a>   <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2012\/03\/20\/a-winter-of-piracy-is-coming\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">who had the same idea<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve even resorted to offering to pay people for their HBOgo password. I\u2019ll give you free books or come to your house and clean. Whatever. Just to be clear, my cable provider does not offer HBO so I have no access to HBOgo services even if I wanted to. I\u2019m really not trying to steal or be cheap. Just impatient as hell. Which isn\u2019t <em>as<\/em> bad. Whatever. I\u2019m desperate here! <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 No? Well, too bad. My blog. 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