{"id":559,"date":"2007-07-14T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/559"},"modified":"2007-07-14T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:40:50","slug":"cashing-in-on-childrens-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/559","title":{"rendered":"Cashing in on children&#8217;s joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/books\/articles\/2007\/07\/13\/this_time_the_potter_parties_won146t_fly\/?p1=MEWell_Pos5\">article <\/a>about how Scholastic and Warner Bros. are cracking down on the nefarious Harry Potter underground raves.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the book launch parties are breaking the rules we all consented to when we signed the street date affidavit (I didn&#8217;t really read it,   I just knew it meant I couldn&#8217;t bring the book out before July 21).<\/p>\n<p>If you want the details,   you can read the article. They don&#8217;t  specifically mention libraries, but what they&#8217;re describing still applies to the party we&#8217;re planning to have.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not changing a thing about our party. We&#8217;re referring to it as a Hewlet-Packard party to avoid the cops\/Deatheaters, but being a nonprofit in a small community, I think we&#8217;ll be under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s upsetting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article about how Scholastic and Warner Bros. are cracking down on the nefarious Harry Potter underground raves. Apparently the book launch parties are breaking the rules we all consented to when we signed the street date affidavit (I didn&#8217;t really read it, I just knew it meant I couldn&#8217;t bring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-librarical","category-thats-terrible"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}