{"id":260,"date":"2007-07-21T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=260"},"modified":"2009-03-15T01:01:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T08:01:20","slug":"colorado-day-1-and-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Colorado day 1 (and Harry Potter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the last Harry Potter book today&#8230; had it read in about 4 hours.<br \/>\nI must say, I am quite impressed in the way she managed to tie together all the vague points from the first 6 books and make everything suddenly clear toward the end. I also like how we&#8217;re left in the dark as to everything until stuff happens (and oh god, the ending is amazing)&#8230; I think an omnipotent view (or more insight into other goings-on, especially Dumbledore&#8217;s plan) would have ruined things. Very well played.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I won&#8217;t post any spoilers because people are probably still reading it, but I will say that one prediction I read in a certain someone&#8217;s LJ was dead-on&#8230; and I suppose I should have expected it, but really didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>As for Colorado, it&#8217;s been mostly uneventful. I had a 2.5 hour layover in Chicago that sucked, but whatever. Wheeeee.<br \/>\nI guess I&#8217;ll post pictures eventually or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the last Harry Potter book today&#8230; had it read in about 4 hours. I must say, I am quite impressed in the way she managed to tie together all the vague points from the first 6 books and make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=260\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}