{"id":1177,"date":"2005-07-21T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/07\/harry_potter_on\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T10:18:15","slug":"harry_potter_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/harry_potter_on\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter on the Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I must be thinking like a complete snob, but I can&#8217;t be the only one who&#8217;s disappointed by the number of adults they&#8217;re seeing reading the new Harry Potter on the tube. Last night I saw a couple sitting together each reading their own copy. I think the worst thing is that some people have being buying the &#8220;adult&#8221; version of the book that comes without the colourful cover, and has a mature author photo of JK Rowling on the back.<br \/>\nCome on.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d probably think less of me if I sat on the tube reading a Famous Five book, and rightly so. Mills &#038; Boon romantic novels sell well, as do Black Lace erotic novels. But people get embarraassed and you don&#8217;t see them being read on the tube. If only it were the same for Potter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I must be thinking like a complete snob, but I can&#8217;t be the only one who&#8217;s disappointed by the number of adults they&#8217;re seeing reading the new Harry Potter on the tube. Last night I saw a couple sitting together each reading their own copy. I think the worst thing is that some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}