{"id":9763,"date":"2016-01-21T02:21:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T08:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=9763"},"modified":"2016-01-20T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T03:48:14","slug":"book-3-of-52-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/book-3-of-52-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 3 (of 52) &#8211; Harry Potter And The Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9765\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9765\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9765\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9765\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-cover-image.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling\" width=\"285\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-cover-image.jpg 285w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-cover-image-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone &#8211; J.K. Rowling<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After this novel was released in 1998, Harry Potter became a bit of a global phenomenon. \u00a0One I had managed to mostly avoid, until now. \u00a0With a trip (or 2) planned to Universal Studios later this year and with a promise from a certain someone to quit smoking should I read all the books and watch all the movies, I went about reading the first entry in the series, <em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone<\/em> to see what the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p>And, I have no idea what all the fuss was about. \u00a0I can see why kids would enjoy it, but the response from adults is mostly a mystery to me. \u00a0Other than a small bit at the end, there was little in the way of excitement in the entire book. \u00a0I&#8217;m told the books get better, but I&#8217;m not entirely looking forward to finding out if that is true or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this novel was released in 1998, Harry Potter became a bit of a global phenomenon. \u00a0One I had managed to mostly avoid, until now. \u00a0With a trip (or 2) planned to Universal Studios later this year and with a promise from a certain someone to quit smoking should I read all the books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1909,6383,6384,5111],"class_list":["post-9763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-harry-potter","tag-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone","tag-j-k-rowling","tag-universal-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}