{"id":963,"date":"2007-07-27T21:31:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2007-08-16T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T18:06:59","slug":"stop-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Stop whining."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While stupid alter ego Dan is prostrated by the heat (actually, it&#8217;s a combination of his allergies, the heat and stupidity), Mr. Crankypants is back for a moment to berate all the idiots who are mad at the <em>New York Slime<\/em> for publishing a review of the latest Harry Potter doorstop-sized book <em>before the official release date of the book<\/em>. The horror!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/19\/did-the-times-betray-harry-potter-fans\/\">people who write in to the public editor of the <em>N. Y. Slime<\/em><\/a> say how &#8220;disappointed&#8221; and &#8220;upset&#8221; they are with the newspaper&#8217;s editors. Wait, isn&#8217;t this the newspaper that published George W. Bush&#8217;s false accusations that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Is this is the newspaper that you would trust with a review of a book that you really care about? Apparently, the answer to this second question is &#8220;yes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am shocked that The New York Times didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consider how upsetting this review would be to fans, like me, who have taken this journey with J.K. Rowling for many years and desperately just want to enjoy the final book without knowledge or hint of what is coming,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Karl Hinze in a typical e-mail to Times editors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Crankypants has advice for Mr. Hinze, and all the other Harry Potter fans who read the reviews before they read the book: Don&#8217;t read book reviews of books you care about, before you read the book. Especially not in the <em>Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While stupid alter ego Dan is prostrated by the heat (actually, it&#8217;s a combination of his allergies, the heat and stupidity), Mr. Crankypants is back for a moment to berate all the idiots who are mad at the New York Slime for publishing a review of the latest Harry Potter doorstop-sized book before the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}