{"id":4591,"date":"2007-07-22T00:51:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T05:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4591"},"modified":"2007-07-21T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T03:15:18","slug":"are_you_a_potte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/are_you_a_potte\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Potterwallah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"pottarwalla.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/pottarwalla.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n\n<p>Though I have never been a fan of Harry, I have always been an ardent devotee of pop culture, so Potter-mania interests me for that reason.  I&#8217;m marinating in it here, but I&#8217;m tickled by what&#8217;s going on <a href=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/entertai\/2007\/jul\/21slide1.htm\">there<\/a>, and by there, I mean India.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><strong>By 7 am, Strand Book Stall, Fort, Mumbai, who opened their doors at 6.30 am sharp on July 21, had sold 2,000 copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Queues of excited Potterwallahs, who had been in line since 6 am or earlier, wound themselves around the block in this busy Mumbai business district, where Saturday is usually a very quiet day.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>Mothers and daughters, teenagers, young working people, plenty of youngsters with their parents and lot of oldies. all stood in a queue calmly clutching receipts for copies booked up to three months earlier.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote><strong>The paan wallahs and chai wallahs nearby had seen this phenomenon before. &#8220;Yes it is for that book,&#8221; they said sagely. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the book is about.<\/strong>&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/entertai\/2007\/jul\/21slide1.htm\">Rediff<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That is almost exactly what I said to a stranger, earlier today! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n<p>And you <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muggle\">muggle<\/a>-borns?  Did you skip to the last page, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/entertai\/2007\/jul\/21slide4.htm\">rowdy teens in Mumbai<\/a> did?<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I have never been a fan of Harry, I have always been an ardent devotee of pop culture, so Potter-mania interests me for that reason. I&#8217;m marinating in it here, but I&#8217;m tickled by what&#8217;s going on there, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/are_you_a_potte\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}