{"id":539,"date":"2006-07-07T07:47:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=539"},"modified":"2020-01-01T20:17:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:17:19","slug":"when-characters-meet-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/when-characters-meet-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"When characters meet &#8220;The End&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/02\/weekinreview\/02mcgrath.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Here&#8217;s a piece by Charles McGrath in the <em>NewYork Times <\/em><\/a>about authors who have killed off their most famous characters. I won&#8217;t list them since it&#8217;s a bigger treat to read the piece ;-)<\/p>\n<p>For a hook, he reports that J.K. Rowling has hinted <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SKvDkk\">Harry Potter<\/a> may be headed for an untimely demise . . . well, untimely in the eyes of readers, because think about it, when you become engrossed in a book you step into a fictional time, and that fictional time swells into its own infinite bubble with no relation whatsoever to the relentless line we normally walk &#8212; so from our perspective, it&#8217;s always too soon for a Harry Potter to go, isn&#8217;t it . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a piece by Charles McGrath in the NewYork Times about authors who have killed off their most famous characters. I won&#8217;t list them since it&#8217;s a bigger treat to read the piece ;-) For a hook, he reports that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/when-characters-meet-the-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1239,1237,1236,1240,1238,241],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-charles-mcgrath","tag-fictional-time","tag-harry-potter","tag-jk-rowling","tag-killing-characters","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}