{"id":16875,"date":"2016-10-28T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/forget-quidditch-harry-potter-author-is-a-seahawks-fan\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:02:15","slug":"forget-quidditch-harry-potter-author-is-a-seahawks-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/forget-quidditch-harry-potter-author-is-a-seahawks-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Quidditch, Harry Potter author is a Seahawks fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON, Wash. \u2014 Seattle Seahawks star Richard Sherman is a huge Harry Potter fan.<\/p>\n<p>So with Halloween looming, Sherman agreed to a request from his son. He donned a cape and grabbed a wand for his weekly media session, presenting a very authentic Harry Potter look.<\/p>\n<p>His display came three days after the Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals played to a 6-6 tie in the desert that left Sherman dehydrated. Sherman acknowledged on Wednesday that \u201cfive quarters of football is pretty tough, but Quidditch \u2014 the Beaters, the Chasers, trying to find the Golden Snitch \u2014 is tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Summoning such terms from the Harry Potter books earned the Seahawks at least one new fan. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling wrote in a post Thursday: \u201cDid I ever mention that I\u2019m a #Seahawks fan? Well, I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, not quite.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201c(Don\u2019t ask me who plays for them apart from R Sherman.)\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON, Wash. \u2014 Seattle Seahawks star Richard Sherman is a huge Harry Potter fan. So with Halloween looming, Sherman agreed to a request from his son. He donned a cape and grabbed a wand for his weekly media session, presenting a very authentic Harry Potter look. His display came three days after the Seahawks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16875"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}