{"id":4046,"date":"2017-03-19T12:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2017-03-19T12:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:53:42","slug":"290l-the-girl-with-the-disappointing-mustard-colored-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/290l-the-girl-with-the-disappointing-mustard-colored-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"290L: The Girl With the Disappointing (Mustard-Colored) Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to the Sunday NY Times, I now know who to ask the question that has been nagging at me for years: what O what was the book for teens (they didn&#8217;t call them YA novels yet) that I read in the 1960s (might&#8217;ve been published then, but also could&#8217;ve been published in the late 1950s) in which a daydreamy teenage girl envisioned painting her room gold, then painted it, then was bitterly disappointed that the walls were in fact &#8220;mustard yellow.&#8221; I remember nothing else about the girl, the story (or the walls) but the book must have had some kind of profound effect on me, because I&#8217;m over 60 now, a novelist and an English professor, and have read many, many novels since&#8211;and I&#8217;ve never forgotten it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Sunday NY Times, I now know who to ask the question that has been nagging at me for years: what O what was the book for teens (they didn&#8217;t call them YA novels yet) that I read in the 1960s (might&#8217;ve been published then, but also could&#8217;ve been published in the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,50,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}