{"id":133732,"date":"2017-06-26T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/youre-a-twenty-year-old-phenomenon-harry.html"},"modified":"2017-06-26T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T00:02:17","slug":"youre-a-twenty-year-old-phenomenon-harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/youre-a-twenty-year-old-phenomenon-harry.html","title":{"rendered":""You're a Twenty-Year Old Phenomenon, Harry!""},"content":{"rendered":"

It's the 20th Anniversary of the first publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone<\/i> (as it was titled in the UK). That's … remarkable. So I've remarked on it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHarry Potter: How the boy wizard enchanted the world – BBC News<\/a><\/span>
\nCan you believe it’s 20 years since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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It's the 20th Anniversary of the first publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (as it was titled in the UK). That's … remarkable. So I've remarked on it. Harry Potter: How the boy wizard enchanted the world – BBC News Can you believe it’s 20 years since the publication of Harry Potter and … Continue reading “"You're a Twenty-Year Old Phenomenon, Harry!"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42248,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/ayn-rands-harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-objectivism.html","url_meta":{"origin":133732,"position":0},"title":"Ayn Rand's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Objectivism"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-May-14 6:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ayn Rand's \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Objectivism\"I laughed. 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