{"id":263,"date":"2005-09-29T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/09\/29\/the-central-ethos-of-harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T15:23:33","slug":"the-central-ethos-of-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/09\/29\/the-central-ethos-of-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central Ethos of Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/view\/anacrusis\/2005\/09\/29\/0\" title=\"Chyler is just hoping he'll ask if she's on her period.\">Fantine was going to say<\/a>, but here&#8217;s my overanalysis:  the central ethos of Harry Potter&#8211;that one should trust children to be competent, but shield them from the consequences of failure; that a parent should protect them from harm, but never information&#8211;is a highly political one.  It&#8217;s also already stated in about a jillion other YA books, but when was the last time it was distributed on such a scale?  When was the last time it was internalized so widely, so willingly, outside the classroom, by children and adults?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s at that question that I start to wonder what the book-burning groups are really out to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what Fantine was going to say, but here&#8217;s my overanalysis: the central ethos of Harry Potter&#8211;that one should trust children to be competent, but shield them from the consequences of failure; that a parent should protect them from harm, but never information&#8211;is a highly political one. It&#8217;s also already stated in about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52,85,42,67,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-books","category-hidden-content","category-naivete","category-religion","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}