{"id":4521,"date":"2017-06-13T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2017-07-10T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:12:40","slug":"297s-star-shaped-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/297s-star-shaped-key\/","title":{"rendered":"297S: Star-Shaped Key (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am looking for a book targeted at, I think, 10-to-12-year-olds, which I suspect was published between 1965 and 1980.\u00a0 I think the protagonists were a brother and sister who for some reason were spending some months (summer vacation?) in a remote location, which I believe was mountainous.\u00a0 The permanent inhabitants were faced with a problem that I do not remember but which I believe involved water.\u00a0 A recurring plot point was that the young boy was taught to play draughts and was challenged to improve&#8211;this name for the game may mean that, though I read the book in a U.S. library, it was a British book.\u00a0 The problem was solved through the use of a key with a star-shaped end which was inserted into a rock face and turned.<\/p>\n<p>As a final detail, I believe the cover of the book was mostly a picture, drawn in blue and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for a book targeted at, I think, 10-to-12-year-olds, which I suspect was published between 1965 and 1980.\u00a0 I think the protagonists were a brother and sister who for some reason were spending some months (summer vacation?) in a remote location, which I believe was mountainous.\u00a0 The permanent inhabitants were faced with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,4,18,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521"}],"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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4574,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}