{"id":13554,"date":"2007-07-21T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=413"},"modified":"2007-07-21T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T14:51:00","slug":"were-not-kids-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/were-not-kids-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#039;re not kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/860928117\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1023\/860928117_89da1dc945_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/860928117\/\">free balloons<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/pgautier\/\">phyl1<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Having queued for <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/i> at midnight (and busy reading it just now), it&#8217;s so clear that the publisher, Bloomsbury, and the big bookshops have got it wrong.  They seem to assume the majority of people reading Harry Potter are kids, so they put on a kidfriendly cover (although an adult one is also available) and they handed out balloons to people queuing.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody in the queue was younger than 13, I reckon, and most were past 25.  And when Phyllis and Amanda (her brother&#8217;s wife) and I took Marcel and Charlotte to the cinema to see Harry Potter&nbsp;5 (rated 12A), the three adults enjoyed it a lot, but the kids didn&#8217;t like it nearly as much.<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising &ndash; the themes are dark and adult, not at all like the early books.  I just don&#8217;t understand why the publisher hasn&#8217;t got it.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>free balloons Originally uploaded by phyl1 Having queued for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at midnight (and busy reading it just now), it&#8217;s so clear that the publisher, Bloomsbury, and the big bookshops have got it wrong. They seem to assume the majority of people reading Harry Potter are kids, so they put on a kidfriendly cover (although an adult one is also available) and they handed out balloons to people queuing. But nobody in the queue was younger than 13, I reckon, and most were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}