{"id":26,"date":"2004-12-21T04:40:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T04:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:53","slug":"new-harry-potter-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"New Harry Potter on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nEarlier tonight I received the following note from Rowling’s Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books:\n<\/p>\n

\nDecember 20, 2004<\/p>\n

Today on her website, J.K. Rowling wished fans a Merry Christmas and a
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Happy New Year.<\/p>\n

She also announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6 in
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the Harry Potter series) is completed and an official announcement from
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the publishers will be available within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

To read the news and solve the clues, visit J.K. Rowling’s official
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website.
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<\/span>http:\/\/www.jkrowling.com<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\nStrangely, given that we’re talking about Harry Potter, I’ve found no corroborating stories online nor have I yet found anything on Rowling’s site….\n<\/p>\n

\nIs this a scoop?\n<\/p>\n

\nUPDATE: Here’s the first story<\/a> I’ve seen backing this up. The date should be announced later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier tonight I received the following note from Rowling’s Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books: December 20, 2004 Today on her website, J.K. Rowling wished fans a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. She also announced that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6 in the Harry Potter series) is completed and an official announcement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}