{"id":3423,"date":"2016-04-09T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T21:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2016-04-09T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T21:41:40","slug":"259h-bored-retired-train-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/259h-bored-retired-train-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"259H: Bored retired train engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My husband (currently 62) fondly remembers <em>a short book about a retired train engineer who was bored at home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The engineer&#8217;s wife suggested he build a backyard railway &#8211; which he did &#8211; and the neighbourhood children flocked to it for rides and happy times.<\/p>\n<p>This made the retired train engineer very happy and no longer bored.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry I have nothing more to go on other than the book would have been purchased in Montreal, Quebec (in English, not in French) and it may have a<\/p>\n<p>British connection as Andrew&#8217;s parents were born in England and moved to Canada in the late 1940&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Any assistance you can offer in helping me to locate this book would be invaluable as Andrew is an only child and both his parents have passed on.<\/p>\n<p>It is a memory he speaks of often and I would dearly love to find the book for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband (currently 62) fondly remembers a short book about a retired train engineer who was bored at home. The engineer&#8217;s wife suggested he build a backyard railway &#8211; which he did &#8211; and the neighbourhood children flocked to it for rides and happy times. This made the retired train engineer very happy and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,19],"tags":[212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"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=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}