{"id":2347,"date":"2015-01-16T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:57:42","slug":"200d-orphaned-girl-lives-with-grumpy-grandpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/200d-orphaned-girl-lives-with-grumpy-grandpa\/","title":{"rendered":"200D: Orphaned Girl Lives with Grumpy Grandpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a group of shorter chapter books about a young girl (maybe 12 or 13?) who goes to live with her Grandpa. He&#8217;s the classic crotchety but with a heart of gold character. She&#8217;s a typical growing-up girl, trying new things, dealing with friendships, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The characters live in a small, quintessential American town. If I were guessing, I&#8217;d say they&#8217;re set in the 50s. I read them in the late 70s and they seemed &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221; to me then &#8212; but there was electricity, cars, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I recall maybe 3 or 4 books in the series. I&#8217;m sure one was set at Christmas. Another was about her entering a Bake-Off.<\/p>\n<p>I think she had a very ordinary name, and this may have been in the title &#8212; Margaret, or Elizabeth?<\/p>\n<p>I also sort of think they were published by Scholastic, and I also think that the Christmas book was made into a made-for-TV movie, that perhaps aired in the early 80s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a group of shorter chapter books about a young girl (maybe 12 or 13?) who goes to live with her Grandpa. He&#8217;s the classic crotchety but with a heart of gold character. She&#8217;s a typical growing-up girl, trying new things, dealing with friendships, etc. The characters live in a small, quintessential American town. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,23,17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"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=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}