{"id":102233,"date":"2017-05-13T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T11:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=102233"},"modified":"2017-05-13T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T11:22:29","slug":"handwritten-harry-potter-prequel-stolen-in-burglary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/13\/handwritten-harry-potter-prequel-stolen-in-burglary\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwritten Harry Potter prequel stolen in burglary"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102235\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/J.K.-Rowling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102235\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/J.K.-Rowling.jpg\" alt=\"J.K. Rowling is urging Harry Potter fans not to buy a handwritten prequel to the boy wizard's adventures that was stolen during a burglary in England. (Photo: J.K. Rowling\/Facebook) \" width=\"517\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/J.K.-Rowling.jpg 517w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/J.K.-Rowling-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/J.K.-Rowling-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.K. Rowling is urging Harry Potter fans not to buy a handwritten prequel to the boy wizard&#8217;s adventures that was stolen during a burglary in England. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JKRowling\/photos\/a.277505099024780.57632.277489075693049\/1032525886856027\/?type=1&amp;theater\">J.K. Rowling\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 J.K. Rowling is urging Harry Potter fans not to buy a handwritten prequel to the boy wizard&#8217;s adventures that was stolen during a burglary in England.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling wrote the 800-word story for a 2008 charity auction, where it sold for 25,000 pounds ($49,000 at the time).<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police said Friday that it was stolen, along with some jewelry, during a burglary in Birmingham, central England between April 13 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>Rowling tweeted a picture of the manuscript Friday with the message: \u201cPLEASE DON&#8217;T BUY THIS IF YOU&#8217;RE OFFERED IT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigating officer Paul Jauncey appealed to any Potter fans who see the story or are offered it for sale to contact police.<\/p>\n<p>Set three years before Harry is born, the story tells how the boy wizard&#8217;s father James Potter and godfather Sirius Black get into trouble with a policeman before escaping with broomsticks, drumsticks and a little bit of magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 J.K. Rowling is urging Harry Potter fans not to buy a handwritten prequel to the boy wizard&#8217;s adventures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[6517,14713],"class_list":["post-102233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-harry-potter","tag-j-k-rowling","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}