{"id":767805,"date":"2009-05-08T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/nicholas-flamel"},"modified":"2009-05-08T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:26:57","slug":"nicholas-flamel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/nicholas-flamel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Flamel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I heard about a new book series about Nicholas Flamel. You could download a free ebook for the first book in the series from Amazon for the Kindle. But the interesting thing is I remembered that Flamel was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Turns out a quick Google search showed me that he is, or was, (depending on who you ask) a real person. He supposedly came into possession of a book that allowed him to turn things into gold, and make the Elixir of Life which allowed him to live forever. <\/p>\n<p \/>&nbsp;<b>Turns out what I thought was intellectual property theft is just smart authors taking real historical characters and using them in their stories. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Nick\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nick.jpg\" width=\"333\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I heard about a new book series about Nicholas Flamel. You could download a free ebook for the first book in the series from Amazon for the Kindle. But the interesting thing is I remembered that Flamel was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Sorc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}