{"id":3191,"date":"2017-07-21T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","slug":"game-of-thrones-library-shenanigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2017\/07\/21\/game-of-thrones-library-shenanigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones library shenanigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shareably.co\/historians-ding-game-of-thro\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3201 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/07\/sam-library-1.gif\" alt=\"Sam-Library-1.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNot so much a shenanigan as an inaccuracy, and also not so much a shenanigan as a hellish montage of bedpans, shit, and gagging&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On the premiere episode of the seventh season of <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, Samwell Tarly is a lowly book-reshelver and bedpan-emptier in the Maesters&#8217;\u00a0 medieval-style library with chains on the shelves. Nice work, GoT, except your chains are completely non-functional, as <a href=\"http:\/\/shareably.co\/historians-ding-game-of-thro\/\">this article<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if GoT had shown the chains doing their jobs &#8212; keeping the books secured to their shelves &#8212; then Sam wouldn&#8217;t have had any reshelving to do (and we would&#8217;ve had to witness even more bedpan-emptying, which, honestly, would&#8217;ve killed me). And more important (spoiler alert), he wouldn&#8217;t have had any chance of stealing a book out of the Citadel library and thereby, perhaps, saving everybody in the Seven Kingdoms from certain death at the hands of the White Walkers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7PeQvlVOPyc?t=58s\">This PBS video<\/a> shows functioning book chains.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/lynnemthomas.com\/\">Lynne M. Thomas<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a shenanigan as an inaccuracy, and also not so much a shenanigan as a hellish montage of bedpans, shit, and gagging&#8230; On the premiere episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Samwell Tarly is a lowly book-reshelver and bedpan-emptier in the Maesters&#8217;\u00a0 medieval-style library with chains on the shelves. Nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3869,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}