{"id":5851,"date":"2009-09-30T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2009-09-30T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T03:20:10","slug":"a-startling-revelation-harry-potter-was-involved-in-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-startling-revelation-harry-potter-was-involved-in-sorcery\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter does not get a medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve read all the Harry Potter books and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Their predominant theme is good vs. evil, \u00a0and yes, there is magic, sorcery and witchcraft – just as there is in \"AddJ.R.R. Tolkien. Although Rowling is not in the same league as C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien, I think her books are an entertaining read and relatively harmless; not all agree<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Harry Potter author JK Rowling missed out on a top honour because some US politicians believed she “encouraged witchcraft”, it has been claimed.<\/p>\n

Matt Latimer, former speech writer for President George W Bush, said that some members of his administration believed her books promoted sorcery.<\/p>\n

As a result, she was never presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n

The claims appear in Latimer’s new book called Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor.<\/p>\n

He wrote that “narrow thinking” led White House officials to object to giving Rowling the civilian honour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a> is awarded for:<\/p>\n

It recognizes those individuals whom have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However much I enjoyed Harry Potter, outside Rowling\u2019s fantasy world, I can\u2019t see him contributing much to culture and nothing at all to world peace, <\/em>whatever that is. <\/em>Surely the reason Rowling was not given this award was because it has no relevance to her work. Still, I imagine she must be pretty upset as she ponders the slight on her way to depositing the next million in her local Barclays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve read all the Harry Potter books and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Their predominant theme is good vs. evil, \u00a0and yes, there is magic, sorcery and witchcraft – just as there is in J.R.R. Tolkien. Although Rowling is not in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2062],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}