{"id":10538,"date":"2014-04-11T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2014\/apr\/11\/game-of-thrones-five-takeaways-for-it\/"},"modified":"2014-04-11T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:41:46","slug":"game-of-thrones-5-takeaways-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/game-of-thrones-5-takeaways-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones: 5 takeaways for IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Stephenson, Journey to the Cloud<\/p>\n<p>After a long wait, Game of Thrones Season 4 has officially started (no spoilers for the first episode of season 4 &ndash; I wouldn&rsquo;t wish that on my worst enemy). &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the action and excitement, there are some lessons IT can take away from seasons 1-3 of the show. Here are five of them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) The war lies to the North<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Robert Baratheon dies, there is all out war for rule of the Iron Throne and control of the Seven Kingdoms. Joffrey Lannister usurps power after the passing of the king and executes the Lord of Winterfell, Ned Stark. This sparks Ned&rsquo;s son Robb to march on King&rsquo;s Landing to attempt to overthrow Joffrey. Meanwhile Robert Baratheon&rsquo;s younger brother Renly, his older brother Stannis, and Daenerys Targaryen are also all raising armies to try and defeat Joffrey. By the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Stephenson, Journey to the Cloud<br \/>\nAfter a long wait, Game of Thrones Season 4 has officially started (no spoilers for the first episode of season 4 &ndash; I wouldn&rsquo;t wish that on my worst enemy). &nbsp;<br \/>\nAmidst the action and excitement, th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}