{"id":27229,"date":"2009-09-30T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/30\/who-used-the-confndus-spell-on\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T19:10:24","slug":"who-used-the-confndus-spell-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/who-used-the-confndus-spell-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Who used the &#8220;Confndus&#8221; spell on George Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Turns out, according to a new book by a speechwriter during the Bush administration, there was talk of honoring [J.K. Rowling] with the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom a few years ago but the idea was a non-starter in the White House. The former administration had decision-makers who spoke up to &#8220;actually object to giving the author J.K. Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged witchcraft,&#8221; writes Matthew Latimer, author of &#8220;Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2009\/09\/hogwarts-bush-witchcraft-harry-potter.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it&#8217;s going to take the Obamas to scrape the stupid off the walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out, according to a new book by a speechwriter during the Bush administration, there was talk of honoring [J.K. Rowling] with the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom a few years ago but the idea was a non-starter in the White House. The former administration had decision-makers who spoke up to &#8220;actually object to giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/30\/who-used-the-confndus-spell-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who used the &#8220;Confndus&#8221; spell on George Bush?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-75b","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}