{"id":10297,"date":"2025-03-11T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=10297"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:06:07","slug":"377w-painting-the-town-red-literally-and-cucumber-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/377w-painting-the-town-red-literally-and-cucumber-sandwiches\/","title":{"rendered":"377W: Painting the town red (literally) and cucumber sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>This is a middle-grade book that I read over and over in the early 70s. Here&#8217;s what I remember about it: &#8211;It was about a group of 4 boys who had adventures in their small town. &#8211;One of the boys had a wealthy grandmother and they used to go to her house for cucumber sandwiches (which one boy didn&#8217;t like because they gave him gas) &#8211;They heard the phrase &#8220;paint the town red&#8221; and went out one night, broke into the hardware store, stole paint, and literally painted the town red &#8211;One of the boys&#8217; moms wanted to visit Schenectady because she liked the way it sounded. This makes me think that it was set in NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a middle-grade book that I read over and over in the early 70s. Here&#8217;s what I remember about it: &#8211;It was about a group of 4 boys who had adventures in their small town. &#8211;One of the boys had a wealthy grandmother and they used to go to her house for cucumber sandwiches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297"}],"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=10297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10299,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10297\/revisions\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}