{"id":98,"date":"2013-02-22T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/club\/?p=98"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:23:10","slug":"pearl-of-a-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/pearl-of-a-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl of a Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lost-steinbecka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-99\" alt=\"The Pearl\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lost-steinbecka-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today in our Lost in a Good Book series, we present a pearl, or rather, <em><strong>The Pearl<\/strong><\/em> by <strong>John Steinbeck <\/strong>(1947), with a charming little gift tag.<\/p>\n<p>The front of the card reads, &#8220;for Pat my nice friend.\u00a0 Helen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reverse of the card reads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lost-steinbeckb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-100\" alt=\"Greetings\" src=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/lost-steinbeckb-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Pat this [is] not a guild book<br \/>\nI ordered it especially for you<br \/>\nsupposed to be so different<br \/>\nI hope you like &#8211; also a<br \/>\nfirst edition<br \/>\nHelen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the inscription on the first free endpaper also reads, &#8220;From Helen Jacobs. Christmas 1947.&#8221;\u00a0 Yup, it is indeed a first edition.\u00a0 Nice gift, Helen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in our Lost in a Good Book series, we present a pearl, or rather, The Pearl by John Steinbeck (1947), with a charming little gift tag. The front of the card reads, &#8220;for Pat my nice friend.\u00a0 Helen.&#8221; The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/pearl-of-a-present\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}