{"id":1230,"date":"2008-04-14T18:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2008-04-14T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T18:51:22","slug":"old_school_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/old_school_1\/","title":{"rendered":"old school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.K. Rowling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/14\/books\/14cnd-rowling.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">went to court today<\/a> to try to stop someone from publishing a lexicon of Harry Potter characters. She says she wants to do it herself, but even if that gave her the right to stop others from doing it (which i surely hope is not what the court decides), Rowling misses the opportunity here to JOIN with Harry Potter fans in the sublime exercise of building on the story.<br \/>\nReminds me of a koan i&#8217;ve been working on which goes like this:<br \/>\nold school authors commit to engage with a subject ON BEHALF of future readers.<br \/>\nnew school authors commit to engage WITH readers in the the context of a subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.K. Rowling went to court today to try to stop someone from publishing a lexicon of Harry Potter characters. She says she wants to do it herself, but even if that gave her the right to stop others from doing it (which i surely hope is not what the court decides), Rowling misses the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,647,948,1546],"tags":[2583],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-fanculture","category-jkrowling","category-publishing","tag-jkrowling-copyright-fanculture-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}