{"id":11715,"date":"2007-07-09T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/07\/09\/wild-about-harry-2.html"},"modified":"2007-07-09T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T01:33:45","slug":"wild_about_harry_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/wild_about_harry_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Wild about Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You know — Harry, the magician, pursued by a dark past, beset by supernatural villains, sometimes mistrusted both the councils of the mighty and his friends as well, just an ordinary fellow with extraordinary talents …<\/p>\n

No, not that <\/a>  <\/em>Harry.  Harry Dresden<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The first DVD set of the SciFi series<\/a> is open for pre-order at Amazon<\/a>.  Which would be fine news in and of itself — but SciFi hasn’t announced a second season yet, as the show was a marginal performer.  So either they’re just contemplating some ways to produce it less expensively<\/a>, or else the strength of the DVD sales might be what’s needed to tip the balance …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know — Harry, the magician, pursued by a dark past, beset by supernatural villains, sometimes mistrusted both the councils of the mighty and his friends as well, just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/16\/book_review_storm_front.html","url_meta":{"origin":11715,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: Storm Front","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-07 8:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first heard about SciFi's new series, The Dresden Files, my first thought was, \"Oh, look, someone's decided to rip off John Constantine, Hellblazer. 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