{"id":3582,"date":"2005-09-05T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2010-07-13T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:21:54","slug":"yellow-brick-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Brick Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have ways of dealing with what is happening right now.  I am devouring <i>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/i>.  I had only read the first and second of the Harry Potter books, when they first came out &#8230; so I decided a month or so ago: let me catch up.  And now?  Cannot put them down.  Total page-turning escape.  And don&#8217;t tell me what happens in the next 2 books, because I literally have no idea!  I don&#8217;t have kids in my life on a daily basis, so I am completely in the dark about what happens in the next two.  I know big stuff is coming.  I frankly find these books disturbingly addictive.  Like &#8211; I have 20 seconds free while I stand in line, and I have to take the book out to read another sentence or two.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandrabillings.com\/site\/new\/home.html\">Alex <\/a>and I were talking on the phone the other night, of course about Katrina.  How we felt, how pissed off we were, what we wanted to do to help &#8230; but also our feeling of helplessness.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, we all have ways of dealing with this.  (I mean &#8211; the ones of us who are not in the thick of things, the ones of us who can only watch on television)<\/p>\n<p>Alex just posted two pieces on one of the biggest escapes of all time:  <i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/106810.html\">Tribute to Wizard of Oz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/abillings\/106605.html\">Wizard of Oz trivia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have ways of dealing with what is happening right now. I am devouring Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I had only read the first and second of the Harry Potter books, when they first came out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19607,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/19607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}