{"id":13716,"date":"2011-02-27T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13716"},"modified":"2011-02-28T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T01:50:06","slug":"wizard-or-what-harry-potter-theme-park-to-open-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13716","title":{"rendered":"Wizard or What&#8230; Harry Potter Theme Park to Open in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13717\" title=\"image-7-for-paper-pics-27-02-2011-gallery-137160313\" src=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image-7-for-paper-pics-27-02-2011-gallery-137160313.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Potter Theme Park\" width=\"450\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image-7-for-paper-pics-27-02-2011-gallery-137160313.jpg 450w, http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image-7-for-paper-pics-27-02-2011-gallery-137160313-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image-7-for-paper-pics-27-02-2011-gallery-137160313-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.co.uk\/\"><em>The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Film company Warner Bros have earmarked a site at Leavesden Studios near London where all eight Harry \u00adPotter movies have been shot.<\/p>\n<p>And they have hired the same team who worked their magic on the first Potter theme park in \u00adOrlando.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter author JK Rowling is an enthusiastic supporter of the idea of a UK park, saying: \u201cI would love it if they could do it as well as they have in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros bought the \u00adsprawling 170-acre site outside Watford in a \u00a3100million deal last year. At the time they outlined low-key plans for a modest \u201cvisitor attraction\u201d at the former Rolls-Royce factory.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/celebs\/news\/2011\/02\/27\/wizard-or-what-harry-potter-theme-park-to-open-in-uk-115875-22952388\/\">the complete article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from\u00a0The Daily Mirror: Film company Warner Bros have earmarked a site at Leavesden Studios near London where all eight Harry \u00adPotter movies have been shot. And they have hired the same team who worked their magic on the first Potter theme park in \u00adOrlando. Harry Potter author JK Rowling is an enthusiastic supporter of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=13716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wizard or What&#8230; Harry Potter Theme Park to Open in UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-arts-culture","category-books-writing","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}