{"id":582,"date":"2007-07-18T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2007-07-18T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:30:24","slug":"me-so-spoily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Me so spoily&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ahoy! NO SPOILERS BELOW!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now, it&#8217;s taking physical restraint not to spoil myself silly on the last Harry Potter book.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost done re-reading book 5, and then it&#8217;s on to book 6. Then, hopefully, book 7 will be out and I can jump right in.<\/p>\n<p>Until that moment, I already know that spoilers exist. Reliable spoilers. It took Slashdot a few days to <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/07\/07\/17\/235207.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">pick up the story<\/a>, but I found the photographed pages of what&#8217;s allegedly a library copy of the book on Demonoid Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/potter.jpg' alt='potter.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>(Supposedly, the nimrod who took the photos left the camera&#8217;s serial number somewhere in the image&#8211;how dumb can you be? For that reason alone, I hope Scholastic lays the legal smackdown on his sorry ass&#8211;you have to be truly inept to screw up digital piracy in this day and age.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not so much that I want to download the book and read it&#8211;I just get this gut, visceral reaction knowing that a few Googles or clicks away, someone has written up all the dirty details that I&#8217;m craving. Who dies, who lives, and how it all goes down. Hell, I skim pages where I suspect I could even accidentally be spoiled, with this weird scary butterfly tingle in my belly, like I&#8217;m playing Russian Roulette.<\/p>\n<p>I need a hobby. No, a REAL hobby, like curling or knitting. Something that doesn&#8217;t involve this goddamned machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahoy! NO SPOILERS BELOW! Right now, it&#8217;s taking physical restraint not to spoil myself silly on the last Harry Potter book. I&#8217;m almost done re-reading book 5, and then it&#8217;s on to book 6. Then, hopefully, book 7 will be out and I can jump right in. Until that moment, I already know that spoilers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fandom","category-teh-intarweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}