{"id":4924,"date":"2017-12-12T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2017-12-12T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:42:15","slug":"303j-all-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/303j-all-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"303J: All For Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They had this picture book at my preschool in the mid-&#8217;80s, though it may have been published earlier. It was about a boy who got into all sorts of trouble &#8220;for nothing,&#8221; as he described it. Escapades included putting water in the gas tank of the car and chopping down the family Christmas tree (&#8220;Sometimes they even spank me for nothing!&#8221;). The story ended with something like, &#8220;Oh well&#8230;in the end I guess it&#8217;s all ok.&#8221; The illustrations were large, simple, and goofy, almost like kids&#8217; drawings; I remember the characters had big mitt-like hands and line-drawn smiles and frowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had this picture book at my preschool in the mid-&#8217;80s, though it may have been published earlier. It was about a boy who got into all sorts of trouble &#8220;for nothing,&#8221; as he described it. Escapades included putting water in the gas tank of the car and chopping down the family Christmas tree (&#8220;Sometimes [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924"}],"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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}