{"id":4914,"date":"2017-12-12T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:21:55","slug":"303e-nyc-resident-replaces-priceless-art-at-museums-with-forgeries-no-one-notices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/303e-nyc-resident-replaces-priceless-art-at-museums-with-forgeries-no-one-notices\/","title":{"rendered":"303E: NYC resident replaces priceless art at museums with forgeries; no one notices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read this book as a young adult in the early 1980s, so it must be older than that. The book is NOT\u00a0<em>From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As I recall it, there is a character who lives a modest life in New York City. The character is a passionate painter. He\/she meticulously recreates great masterpieces, then from time to time sneaks into the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or possibly some other museum) and replaces an original with a forgery. Over the years, he\/she has done this a dozen times, but no one ever discovers that the paintings are forgeries. The originals then sit in his\/her modest apartment. The forger makes no money off his\/her expert forging talents. A few of the forger&#8217;s friends know he\/she does this, but there is never any sense that the forger will get caught.<\/p>\n<p>This character may not be the main character of the book. I seem to remember that the book had an ensemble of unusual characters.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that the forger character, or another character, lived in Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is probably a young adult book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book as a young adult in the early 1980s, so it must be older than that. The book is NOT\u00a0From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. As I recall it, there is a character who lives a modest life in New York City. The character is a passionate painter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"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=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}