{"id":277678,"date":"2018-11-16T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/swanjolras-okay-most-of-what-i-do-re-harry-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:04:47","slug":"swanjolras-okay-most-of-what-i-do-re-harry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/swanjolras-okay-most-of-what-i-do-re-harry-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/swanjolras.tumblr.com\/post\/90182439252\" target=\"_blank\">swanjolras<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and<\/p>\n<p>i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller\u2019s list for children\u2019s lit\u00a0<em>just because harry potter existed<\/em>. harry potter\u00a0<em>changed reading<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>so many people on tumblr were born in the \u201890s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn\u2019t read. but we grew up in a world where\u00a0<em>everyone, everyone, everyone<\/em> was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the\u00a0<em>entire world<\/em> was a fantasy children\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives <em>around<\/em>,\u00a0a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives\u2013 for so many of us, the first books we ever loved<\/p>\n<p>the extent to which so many of us can\u2019t call ourselves \u201cfans\u201d of harry potter, because it would like being a \u201cfan\u201d of, like, having lungs.<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s not even\u00a0<em>about<\/em> liking it or disliking it. it\u2019s just a part of us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>swanjolras: okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/16\/swanjolras-okay-most-of-what-i-do-re-harry-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[151,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}