{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcurrentaffairs.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fwizardchildren-lngkUmiY","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Wizard Children","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a8e3828a-375e-49fd-973f-025700235a18/ddb430f0-40cf-4c6d-97bd-6ee26bf1a3eb/currentaffairs.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/49d8cc09-f600-4b49-ab6a-2b8e699d7a2d\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Wizard Children\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"A lot of people are completely sick and tired of the world's twenty-year-long obsession with Harry Potter. \"Shut up about Harry Potter! Read another book!\" they cry. \n\nTo which we respond: no.\n\nThis week, Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson, senior editor Brianna Rennix, amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, legal editor Oren Nimni, finance editor Sparky Abraham, and Current Affairs Podcast host Pete Davis have a long, extremely animated discussion about the Wizard Children And Their Politics.\n\nYou can read more about the time-travelling Ron Weasley theory here:  https://the-toast.net/2014/01/02/let-the-man-speak/ "}