{"id":1392236,"date":"2016-08-08T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1392236"},"modified":"2016-08-08T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:55:31","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-as-told-in-a-series-of-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Characters From Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em> Could Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this day and age it’s surprising that anyone still bothers with face-to-face interaction. By now I was expecting our society to have done away with that lumbering dinosaur entirely. The fact that we haven’t is somewhat of an inconvenience to me personally, because then I have to put down my iPhone, tap into some primeval instincts, and remember how to make mouth words.<\/p>\n

My point: texting is the way of the future, and we’re all better for it. Even fictional characters are better for it. I’ve stressed this point again<\/a> and again<\/a> (and again<\/a> and again<\/a> and again<\/a>), so it should come as no surprise that I’m giving J.K. Rowling’s brand-spanking-new script book Cursed Child<\/em> the texting treatment. It was bonkers and overly flamboyant and I loved every minute of it<\/a>, but I think I would have loved it more if it had just been 500 pages of Harry sending Draco the poop emoji.<\/p>\n

WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. I’M TALKING SPOILERS GALORE. I’M TALKING SPOILERS FOR DAYS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this day and age it’s surprising that anyone still bothers with face-to-face interaction. By now I was expecting our society to have done away with that lumbering dinosaur entirely. The fact that we haven’t continue reading<\/span>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,21445,32,18310,17430,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392236"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}