{"id":5457,"date":"2018-07-11T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:41:18","slug":"310xcherished-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/310xcherished-books\/","title":{"rendered":"310X: Cherished books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My father is desperate to find a cherished book from his childhood in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 It was a compilation of poems and short stories published around 1945-1950.\u00a0 He thinks it may have been a War Economy publication.\u00a0 He cannot remember the name of the anthology. \u00a0The stories and poems he recalls are,<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHow Horatius Kept the Bridge\u201d<\/strong> by Macaulay<\/p>\n<p>A tale about Ralph the Rover who removed the bell from the Inchcape Rock<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cRikki Tikki Tavi\u201d<\/strong> by Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJackanapes\u201d<\/strong> about the boy who became a bugler in Wellington\u2019s army at Waterloo.\u00a0 I think the author is J H Ewing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cStratosphere Express\u201d<\/strong>: the tale of a huge, futuristic airliner that flew at 500 miles an hour and 60,000 feet across the Atlantic and, would you believe, was highjacked on its first trip<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPower on Deck<\/strong>\u201d about the young engineering cadet who saves his ship from certain disaster<\/p>\n<p>There was another story about a mysterious seaplane and the three children who put an end to its smuggling activities\u2026 with a little help from the Fleet Air Arm<\/p>\n<p>The adventures of Mr. Bumbletoes of Bumbleton, the nursery floor creation who came alive at night with all his fellow citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father is desperate to find a cherished book from his childhood in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 It was a compilation of poems and short stories published around 1945-1950.\u00a0 He thinks it may have been a War Economy publication.\u00a0 He cannot remember the name of the anthology. \u00a0The stories and poems he recalls are, \u201cHow Horatius Kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457"}],"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=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}