{"id":3476,"date":"2016-05-08T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2016-05-25T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T23:42:27","slug":"262e-welsh-coal-mine-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/262e-welsh-coal-mine-ponies\/","title":{"rendered":"262E: Welsh Coal Mine Ponies (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I loved this chapter book in the 1970s. \u00a0It took place during a much earlier era. \u00a0 A coal mine in, I believe, Wales is closing which employs most of the people in the town. \u00a0The town children are afraid of what will happen to the ponies that work in the mine pulling the coal carts. They want to &#8220;retire&#8221; the ponies to a field. \u00a0The parents are worried about losing their jobs and don\u2019t have the money to help the children save the ponies. \u00a0I believe the children make an appeal to the wealthy owner of the mine, who is sympathetic. \u00a0There may also be descriptions of the miners being sick, and of a canary dying from gas in the mine. \u00a0I remember this book having the same kind of feel to it as \u201cThe Wheel on the School.\u201d \u00a0Thanks everyone for your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this chapter book in the 1970s. \u00a0It took place during a much earlier era. \u00a0 A coal mine in, I believe, Wales is closing which employs most of the people in the town. \u00a0The town children are afraid of what will happen to the ponies that work in the mine pulling the coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,4,18],"tags":[83,257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476"}],"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=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}