{"id":582,"date":"2005-07-15T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/harry-potter-and-the-bloody-half-price\/"},"modified":"2005-07-15T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T19:53:00","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-bloody-half-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/harry-potter-and-the-bloody-half-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Bloody Half Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah well. <a href=\"http:\/\/psasidhar.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">psasidhar<\/a> is off somewhere in the wilderness, so I can&#8217;t leech it off him, like the last time. <a href=\"http:\/\/moccacino.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">moccacino<\/a> writes gloating emails which proclaim that at about this time tomorrow, she will have read the book and I would be picking at my toenails in absolute desperation. Better sense tells me not to spend 640 rupees just for the heck of the First Day Read, because I would undoubtedly either get a copy in the mail, or buy a pirated\/second-hand edition off the streets later.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t help wondering &#8211; shouldn&#8217;t there be a way out of this? Something like, I buy the book first thing tomorrow morning, read it, and sell it off to anyone who wants it, at a legitimate discount. What&#8217;s in it for me? The pleasure of the First Day Read. What&#8217;s in it for the individual who buys it off me? A sizeable discount on an already sizeable discount, and the pleasure of owning a hardcover first edition of <i>Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince<\/i> for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead. Bite it, fanboy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah well. psasidhar is off somewhere in the wilderness, so I can&#8217;t leech it off him, like the last time. moccacino writes gloating emails which proclaim that at about this time tomorrow, she will have read the book and I would be picking at my toenails in absolute desperation. Better sense tells me not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}