{"id":82,"date":"2007-08-13T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-08-14T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T13:53:48","slug":"hitchens-on-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens on Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens, professional literary bomb thrower, has a great review of Harry Potter in this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/books\/review\/Hitchens-t.html?_r=1&#038;ref=books&#038;oref=slogin\">Times.<\/a> My favorite line:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The schoolchildren appear to know nothing of Christianity; in this latest novel Harry and even Hermione are ignorant of two well-known biblical verses encountered in a churchyard. That the main characters nonetheless have a strong moral code and a solid ethical commitment will be a mystery to some \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like his holiness the pope and other clerical authorities who have denounced the series \u00e2\u20ac\u201d while seeming unexceptionable to many others.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Hitchens, professional literary bomb thrower, has a great review of Harry Potter in this weekend&#8217;s Times. My favorite line: &#8220;The schoolchildren appear to know nothing of Christianity; in this latest novel Harry and even Hermione are ignorant of two well-known biblical verses encountered in a churchyard. That the main characters nonetheless have a strong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=82\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitchens on Harry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}