{"id":303,"date":"2008-12-25T18:51:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T23:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=303"},"modified":"2008-12-25T18:51:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T23:51:37","slug":"the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard-by-jk-rowlingchildrens-high-level-group-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard-by-jk-rowlingchildrens-high-level-group-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. RowlingChildren&#8217;s High Level Group, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These short stories are wizarding-world fables, &#8220;translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger&#8221; (though sadly, without any kind of textual commentary in Hermione&#8217;s voice), with &#8220;commentary by Albus Dumbledore.&#8221; The commentary, with its amusing footnotes and asides, is the best part of the book, though the stories themselves aren&#8217;t bad either. I liked &#8220;The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,&#8221; but not as much as I liked the horribly saccharine excerpt from a bowdlerized version that appears in the &#8220;Dumbledore&#8217;s&#8221; commentary; similarly, the best part of &#8220;The Fountain of Fair Fortune&#8221; was the story in the commentary of a failed Christmas pantomime at Hogwarts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These short stories are wizarding-world fables, &#8220;translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger&#8221; (though sadly, without any kind of textual commentary in Hermione&#8217;s voice), with &#8220;commentary by Albus Dumbledore.&#8221; The commentary, with its amusing footnotes and asides, is the best part of the book, though the stories themselves aren&#8217;t bad either. I liked &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}