{"id":375,"date":"2007-07-21T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=375"},"modified":"2007-07-21T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T22:34:33","slug":"page-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"Page 136"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m reading <em>Deathly Hallows<\/em>. It&#8217;s goofy but there&#8217;s something to be said for reading a book and knowing that ten million other people are reading the same thing.  It&#8217;s the closest my generation will get to a shared cultural experience this side of Janet Jackson&#8217;s nipple.<\/p>\n<p>One of themes in the last couple of books which continues in <em>Hallows<\/em> is the ruthless and often illegal methods being used by the Ministry of Magic to battle Voldy.  Secrecy, kangaroo courts, secret witness, alliance with bad people, etc.  And I feel that there&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n<p>How long will it be before some Right Wing reactionary decides she&#8217;s criticizing George W. Bush? I mean, these guys lost it because they thought <em>Revenge of the Sith<\/em> had an anti-Bush message.<\/p>\n<p>I predict that by Wednesday, J. K. Rowling is denounced as a left-wing lunatic who wants the terrorists to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m reading Deathly Hallows. It&#8217;s goofy but there&#8217;s something to be said for reading a book and knowing that ten million other people are reading the same thing. It&#8217;s the closest my generation will get to a shared cultural experience this side of Janet Jackson&#8217;s nipple. One of themes in the last couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page 136<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-63","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}