{"id":98,"date":"2007-07-23T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-03-29T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T00:06:32","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hollows-%e2%80%94-teasers-but-no-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows \u2014 teasers but no spoilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry\">I\u2019ve just finished the last book in the Harry Potter saga and it was, in a word, amazing. From page one this book grabs you by the heart and does not let go. There was sadness, fear, hope, loss, and almost desperate moments of hilarity that came as a welcome relief. At points I cried and at others I cheered right out loud.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a kid\u2019s book anymore. Harry has grown up and so has the story. Rowling has taken her gloves off and she means business. This book is a departure from all the others \u2014 even the darker fifth and sixth books. The wizarding world is in a desperate state and Harry faces challenges beyond any he has faced before.<\/p>\n<p>I will have my spoiler-filled appraisal of the book up later this week, but for those of you who still have not read the book I wanted to say: Hurry up! Make sure you have a box of Kleenex and a full night to stay up reading because you won\u2019t want to put this down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just finished the last book in the Harry Potter saga and it was, in a word, amazing. From page one this book grabs you by the heart and does not let go. There was sadness, fear, hope, loss, and almost desperate moments of hilarity that came as a welcome relief. At points I cried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-chitchat","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-young-adult-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}