{"id":6793,"date":"2015-12-15T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T03:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2015-12-15T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T04:04:47","slug":"john-williams-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/john-williams-game-of-thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"John Williams Accidentally Wrote The Game of Thrones Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8buh5A70loA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6794\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame.jpg\" alt=\"johnwilliamsgame\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a Star Wars a-brewing, maybe you heard. I\u2019ve been cruising through the old ones. The original and Empire are still bulletproof, Jedi is still dull, and, after all this &#8216;THEY&#8217;RE ACTUALLY GOOD&#8217; scuttlebutt online about the prequels, them being just as bad as I remembered is a bigger surprise than if they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not worth seeing and they\u2019re not worth thinking about, except for the moment where, in the closing seconds of his worst film, John Williams\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8buh5A70loA\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally wrote the Game of Thrones theme<\/a> (starts at 0:04)\u00a0and then cast it aside as quickly as he noodled it into existence:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones - &quot;Begun the Clone War has&quot; (Imperial March)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8buh5A70loA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8buh5A70loA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6794\" style=\"border: 4px solid  #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame.jpg\" alt=\"johnwilliamsgame\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame.jpg 692w, https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/johnwilliamsgame-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a Star Wars a-brewing, maybe you heard. I\u2019ve been cruising through the old ones. The original and Empire are still bulletproof, Jedi is still dull, and, after all this &#8216;THEY&#8217;RE ACTUALLY GOOD&#8217; scuttlebutt online about the prequels, them being just as bad as I remembered is a bigger surprise than if they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not worth seeing and they\u2019re not worth thinking about, except for the moment where, in the closing seconds of his worst film, John Williams\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8buh5A70loA\" target=\"_blank\">accidentally wrote the Game of Thrones theme<\/a> (starts at 0:04)\u00a0and then cast it aside as quickly as he noodled it into existence:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,726],"tags":[3349,4088,5120,95,4871,5119],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-johns-essays","tag-attack-of-the-clones","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-game-of-thrones-theme","tag-john-damico","tag-john-williams","tag-john-williams-game-of-thrones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}