{"id":230,"date":"2007-08-01T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/1186013303146.html"},"modified":"2007-08-01T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:08:23","slug":"blogentry-harry-potter-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Harry Potter : Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#039;ve been listening to Harry Potter on iPod for about a week.  At a rate of about 2 chapters per day I was planning to be finished tomorrow, or maybe the day after.  But a coworker was pestering me enough to hurry up and finish so we could discuss it that I found myself reading the ebook in between chapters and then went for a walk around the lake over lunch and basically finished the thing in a couple of hours this afternoon.  Ironically, I am scheduled for vacation next week, when I really should be reading the silly thing instead of deliberately finishing it before I go.<\/p>\n<p\/>Anyway, the point of my story is that this afternoon on the train home, I sat down and realized that the people 4 rows ahead of me were actually <em>discussing the ending of the book<\/em>.  So if I hadn&#039;t picked up speed and finished today, I would have walked right into a major spoiler.  Yikes.  I was tempted to tell them to shut up, there might be people on the train who had not yet finished the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#039;ve been listening to Harry Potter on iPod for about a week. At a rate of about 2 chapters per day I was planning to be finished tomorrow, or maybe the day after. But a coworker was pestering me enough to hurry up and finish so we could discuss it that I found myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}