{"id":10284,"date":"2025-03-04T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=10284"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:59:27","slug":"377t-my-aunt-is-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/377t-my-aunt-is-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"377T: My Aunt is a Witch? (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>I read this book in the&nbsp;mid-1970s.&nbsp; It was set in about the witch trial time.&nbsp; A young boy had an single aunt (she would be called a free-spirit now).&nbsp; Because she did not conform the the norms of the day, she was accused of being a witch.&nbsp; He tried to save her from being a witch by plunging a needle repeatedly into his leg.&nbsp; She ran away rather than be tried as a witch.&nbsp; He went after her and she was claimed to have kidnapped him.&nbsp; At the end of the book, the aunt was in jail and two brothers, both ship captains, offered to marry her.&nbsp; One brother wanted her to finish the jail term and then he would marry her.&nbsp; He claimed his sterling reputation would make her acceptable to the community.&nbsp; The other brother said he would break her out of jail that night and sail away with her, never to return to the colonies.&nbsp; She took the second brothers&#8217; offer.<br>It has been at least 50 years since I read the book.&nbsp; I seem to remember the title contained the witch, silver or wake but I could be completely wrong about the title.&nbsp; I checked the book out from a bookmobile in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book in the&nbsp;mid-1970s.&nbsp; It was set in about the witch trial time.&nbsp; A young boy had an single aunt (she would be called a free-spirit now).&nbsp; Because she did not conform the the norms of the day, she was accused of being a witch.&nbsp; He tried to save her from being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,18],"tags":[368,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10284\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}