{"id":4828,"date":"2017-11-08T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T00:28:55","slug":"301x-shoes-that-looked-like-ballet-slippers-and-a-string-of-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/301x-shoes-that-looked-like-ballet-slippers-and-a-string-of-pearls\/","title":{"rendered":"301X: Shoes that looked like ballet slippers and a string of pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #333333; background: white;\">The book that I have been unsuccessfully searching for is a book of short stories for girls that was published in the mid 1960&#8217;s. \u00a0I recall purchasing it at a school book fair, most likely in junior high. \u00a0The stories were mostly coming of age stories for teenage girls. \u00a0One story told of a girl who did not fit in in high school, and she wanted new clothes that she believed would help. \u00a0I remember she wanted to buy &#8220;shoes that look like ballet slippers and a string of pearls. \u00a0I seem to recall that she also played the piano. \u00a0Another story was about a girl who felt very unattractive and her dad said something to the effect of she was not a pretty girl but she was going to be a beautiful woman. \u00a0I have searched for this collection of short stories for many years and have found many collections, but not this particular one. \u00a0I would be very grateful if you might have any information about this elusive book. \u00a0Thank you for any suggestions you may have.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book that I have been unsuccessfully searching for is a book of short stories for girls that was published in the mid 1960&#8217;s. \u00a0I recall purchasing it at a school book fair, most likely in junior high. \u00a0The stories were mostly coming of age stories for teenage girls. \u00a0One story told of a girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,14,50,19,5],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828"}],"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=4828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4828\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}