{"id":2809,"date":"2015-07-01T17:31:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2015-07-01T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:33:38","slug":"228f-towns-largest-yarn-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/228f-towns-largest-yarn-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"228F: Town&#8217;s largest yarn ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This book is an older children&#8217;s\/YA book, set in small-town America. It was published in the 80s or earlier. The major competition in the town is which of two women had the larger ball of yarn\/string. Everyone adds their spare bits to one or the other &#8211; I believe the POV character (a girl) brought the string from around a package to add to one woman&#8217;s ball.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the town decided they needed to know once and for all. One woman&#8217;s was measurably a little bit larger, but there was the question of how tightly it was wound, plus there was the rumor that there was a peach pit in the center.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, they decided to answer the question by unwinding each ball around a racetrack or something. I think they may have had to knock out walls to get the balls out of their owners&#8217; houses. Partway through the unwinding one of the balls did indeed start looking notably peach-pit-shaped, and that&#8217;s the last I remember.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for any help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is an older children&#8217;s\/YA book, set in small-town America. It was published in the 80s or earlier. The major competition in the town is which of two women had the larger ball of yarn\/string. Everyone adds their spare bits to one or the other &#8211; I believe the POV character (a girl) brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"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=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}