{"id":145,"date":"2011-09-12T06:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-09-12T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:01:39","slug":"news-from-the-cupboard-under-the-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/news-from-the-cupboard-under-the-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Cupboard Under the Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re dying to know what happened when I crossed the threshold into Pottermore&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A wand chose me at Ollivanders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/laurel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-146\" title=\"laurel\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/laurel-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/laurel-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/laurel.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I got sorted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ravenclaw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-147\" title=\"ravenclaw\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ravenclaw-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ravenclaw-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ravenclaw.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surprising. Not disappointing. But surprising. \u00c2\u00a0Guess it pays to close one&#8217;s eyes and chant softly, &#8220;Not Slytherin&#8230;. Not Slytherin&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in good company with the likes of Professor Flitwick, Mr. Ollivander, and, of course, Luna Lovegood. (I&#8217;m just gonna pretend that the Sorting Hat was drunk the day it gave us Gilderoy Lockhart.)<\/p>\n<p>Anybody wanna buy a nice set of <a title=\"I'm a Hufflepuff!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y0Z5_wipT2o\" target=\"_blank\">Hufflepuff Quidditch robes<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re dying to know what happened when I crossed the threshold into Pottermore&#8230;. A wand chose me at Ollivanders&#8230; And I got sorted&#8230; Surprising. Not disappointing. But surprising. \u00c2\u00a0Guess it pays to close one&#8217;s eyes and chant softly, &#8220;Not Slytherin&#8230;. Not Slytherin&#8230;&#8221; I&#8217;m in good company with the likes of Professor Flitwick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}