{"id":496,"date":"2006-07-31T05:38:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T10:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=496"},"modified":"2005-09-14T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T21:34:25","slug":"happy-birthday-ms-rowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2006\/07\/31\/happy-birthday-ms-rowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Ms. Rowling!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is J.K. Rowling&#8217;s Birthday!<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t know who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jkrowling.com\/en\/\">J. K. Rowling<\/a> is, well, you certainly haven&#8217;t been paying attention.  She is, in short, the creator of Harry Potter and crew.  As a divorced, single mother struggling to scrape by on public assistance, aka &#8220;the Dole&#8221;, in the UK, she wrote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0590353403%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0590353403%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone<\/a> which she sold astonishingly quickly for a first time author.  The book went on to become a wonderfully popular hit with adults and kids alike.  At the same time she wrote the first book, she plotted out the rest of the series and started drafts of those books as well.  Each year after that first release a new book in the series has come out, for a total of six, so far, with the seventh on it&#8217;s way.<br \/>\nI know many people who dislike the books for their simplicity or how they handle magic or any of a number of reasons, but, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, anything that can get so many kids reading books again, instead of suckling at the glass teat, is okay with me.<br \/>\nI hope Ms. Rowling will keep writing after the series is done.  She&#8217;s a good one, even if she does write kids books!<br \/>\nHappy Birthday, Ms. Rowling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is J.K. Rowling&#8217;s Birthday! If you don&#8217;t know who J. K. Rowling is, well, you certainly haven&#8217;t been paying attention. She is, in short, the creator of Harry Potter and crew. As a divorced, single mother struggling to scrape by on public assistance, aka &#8220;the Dole&#8221;, in the UK, she wrote Harry Potter and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29,9,16],"tags":[670],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famous-authors","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fantasy","category-fiction-and-its-kin","tag-jk-rowling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}