{"id":6005,"date":"2018-11-29T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2018-11-29T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T23:42:44","slug":"319a-aeronautical-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/319a-aeronautical-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"319A: Aeronautical Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ng-scope\"><span class=\"pronto-mail__usermail ng-binding pronto-mail__address\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><tt class=\"letterText\">1930s or 1940s adventure books (of short stories) for boys featuring airplanes.\u00a0 I remember a story that featured a crew of men attempting a record breaking non-stop (transcontinental? Transatlantic?) flight, in a 3 engine plane that could be refueled midair.\u00a0 I remember a scene where one engine was shut down for in flight maintenance.\u00a0 <\/tt><\/p>\n<p><tt class=\"letterText\">One story featured two pilots flying an old biplane in a barnstorming content that was won because the co-pilot dumped itching powder down his partner's back.\u00a0 Another featured WWII aircrew captured by Germans and they manage to escape and steal a German plane equipped with skis for the snow.\u00a0 These books had belonged to my father, and were probably given to him by his uncle, who was a pilot. <\/tt><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1930s or 1940s adventure books (of short stories) for boys featuring airplanes.\u00a0 I remember a story that featured a crew of men attempting a record breaking non-stop (transcontinental? Transatlantic?) flight, in a 3 engine plane that could be refueled midair.\u00a0 I remember a scene where one engine was shut down for in flight maintenance.\u00a0 One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,14,4,19],"tags":[340,339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005"}],"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=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}