{"id":5908,"date":"2018-11-23T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=5908"},"modified":"2018-11-23T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:16:36","slug":"317f-sentient-pith-helmets-bust-chocolate-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/317f-sentient-pith-helmets-bust-chocolate-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"317F: Sentient Pith Helmets Bust Chocolate Smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A short illustrated book where a child discovers some sort of bootlegging operation, except they&#8217;re smuggling bars of chocolate, not booze.\u00a0 And the smuggling is being done by giant alien hats.\u00a0 The clearest image I have is the cops who end up busting the criminals. They took the form of white pith helmets, with twin gun barrels on their undercarriages.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m not convinced that this book isn&#8217;t a product of my childhood imagination, but the memory is pretty vivid.\u00a0 I would have read it in the 1980s, probably in the UK or Australia.\u00a0 The illustrations were painted, not line drawings, and in colour.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short illustrated book where a child discovers some sort of bootlegging operation, except they&#8217;re smuggling bars of chocolate, not booze.\u00a0 And the smuggling is being done by giant alien hats.\u00a0 The clearest image I have is the cops who end up busting the criminals. They took the form of white pith helmets, with twin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908"}],"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=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}