{"id":4153,"date":"2016-06-06T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/06\/jk-rowling-calls-critics-of-black-hermione-a-bunch-of-racists\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:23:00","slug":"jk-rowling-calls-critics-of-black-hermione-a-bunch-of-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/06\/jk-rowling-calls-critics-of-black-hermione-a-bunch-of-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Rowling calls critics of black Hermione &#039;a bunch of racists&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f106989%2fharrypottercursedchild\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/an_fHdWos7ie8lm4btCYSmD8NwE=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F106989%2Fharrypottercursedchild.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=JK+Rowling+calls+critics+of+black+Hermione+%27a+bunch+of+racists%27&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F05%2Fjk-rowling-black-hermione-critics-racists%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F05%2Fjk-rowling-black-hermione-critics-racists%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/jun\/05\/harry-potter-jk--rowling-black-hermione\">JK Rowling&#8217;s newest play<\/a>,\u00a0<i>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,\u00a0<\/i>sold over 175,000 tickets in 24 hours \u2014 but not everyone is equally enthusiastic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All across social media, fans of the movie have been criticizing the writer for casting a black actress in the role of Hermione. In an interview with <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/jun\/05\/harry-potter-jk--rowling-black-hermione\">The Observer <\/a><\/i>released today, JK Rowling slammed her critics, call them a &#8220;bunch of racists.&#8221; Noma Dumezweni, playing Hermione, was simply &#8220;the best actress for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/31\/harry-potter-cursed-child-characters\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Here&#8217;s your first glimpse of the &#8216;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&#8217; characters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;With my experience of social media, I thought that idiots were going to idiot,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/jun\/05\/harry-potter-jk--rowling-black-hermione\">Rowling told <i>The Observer.<\/i><\/a><i><\/i> &#8220;But what can you say? That\u2019s the way the world is.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/05\/jk-rowling-black-hermione-critics-racists\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/racism\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Racism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hermione\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hermione<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/harry-potter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Harry Potter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Harry Potter And The Cursed Child<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/jk-rowling\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Jk Rowling<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/JUBmyl_hACo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JK Rowling&#8217;s newest play,\u00a0Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,\u00a0sold over 175,000 tickets in 24 hours \u2014 but not everyone is equally enthusiastic.\u00a0 All across social media, fans of the movie have been criticizing the writer for casting a black actress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/06\/jk-rowling-calls-critics-of-black-hermione-a-bunch-of-racists\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1005,3216,3215,2073,1345],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-harry-potter","tag-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child","tag-hermione","tag-jk-rowling","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}