{"id":1518,"date":"2007-07-21T00:24:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2007-07-21T00:24:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T00:24:09","slug":"the-boy-who-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1518","title":{"rendered":"The boy who lived&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this on my iPhone while waiting in line with Laura at the Harry Potter release at the Barnes and Noble in Burlington, Massachusetts.  We&#8217;ve been here since around 9:30 and there&#8217;s gotta be about 1500 people here.  It&#8217;s insane!  There&#8217;s a bunch of girls in full garb near us that are singing bizarre Potter-related cheerleader-style songs, a bunch of little kids zooming around on those sneakers with built-in skates, and two high school nerdy guys and a girl dressed kinda like a hoochie mama in line in front of us.  A weirdass crowd, but inarguably a crowd, what some people are calling a once-in-a-lifetime book event.  I suspect this is what it was like when the new Dickens books came off the docks&#8230; And I wonder  what the next literary-lineup event will be.<br \/>\nWow.  I wonder of there&#8217;s an article in this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this on my iPhone while waiting in line with Laura at the Harry Potter release at the Barnes and Noble in Burlington, Massachusetts. We&#8217;ve been here since around 9:30 and there&#8217;s gotta be about 1500 people here. It&#8217;s insane! There&#8217;s a bunch of girls in full garb near us that are singing bizarre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-ou","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}