{"id":1780,"date":"2014-06-22T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2014-07-03T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:15:58","slug":"169g-beaver-kids-young-sister-is-named-crackie-chapters-end-with-non-sequiturs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/169g-beaver-kids-young-sister-is-named-crackie-chapters-end-with-non-sequiturs\/","title":{"rendered":"169G: Beaver kids&#8217; young sister is named Crackie, chapters end with non sequiturs (solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I found it at a library sale in the early &#8217;80s and it&#8217;s long since lost. Hardcover, no jacket, a drawing of two beaver kids against a dark green background (if memory serves). A chapter book, maybe 100 pages. Pulp paper. Pub date could have been 1900 to 1940; I would be shocked if it&#8217;s any more recent.<\/p>\n<p>The two things I remember:<\/p>\n<p>1. The little beaver sister, Crackie, earned her name because she constantly cracks or breaks things. In one chapter she drops an ice cream cone and the tip breaks off.<\/p>\n<p>2. The last sentence of every chapter contains a non sequitur in this form: &#8220;And as long as I have time to bring Mrs. Gaffney the blueberry pies for her pet cat, I&#8217;ll tell you the next part of the story.&#8221; (There is no reference to Mrs. Gaffney, pies, or a cat anywhere else in the book.) I remember the ones in the book being truly amazing and weird.<\/p>\n<p>Thanking you all in advance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found it at a library sale in the early &#8217;80s and it&#8217;s long since lost. Hardcover, no jacket, a drawing of two beaver kids against a dark green background (if memory serves). A chapter book, maybe 100 pages. Pulp paper. Pub date could have been 1900 to 1940; I would be shocked if it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,18,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}