{"id":4545,"date":"2017-07-08T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2017-07-08T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T17:59:18","slug":"297z-the-clown-who-had-to-become-a-ditch-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/297z-the-clown-who-had-to-become-a-ditch-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"297Z: The clown who had to become a ditch-digger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the early 1950s, I had a children&#8217;s picture book about eight by ten inches concerning a clown who was forced to leave the circus.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t recall why he had to leave, but he had done something wrong.\u00a0 What lingers in my memory is a closing illustration of the clown, dressed in a blue clown suit, oversized shoes, red wig and nose, walking down a road with a pick and shovel over his right shoulder, perhaps into the setting sun, though I&#8217;m not sure of that detail.\u00a0 He had to leave the circus and become a ditch-digger.\u00a0 I thought it was the saddest image I had ever seen and the saddest fate I could imagine.\u00a0 I still think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1950s, I had a children&#8217;s picture book about eight by ten inches concerning a clown who was forced to leave the circus.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t recall why he had to leave, but he had done something wrong.\u00a0 What lingers in my memory is a closing illustration of the clown, dressed in a blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19],"tags":[311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545"}],"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=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}