{"id":6031,"date":"2018-11-29T20:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2018-11-29T20:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T01:05:19","slug":"319n-stories-where-teenagers-reflect-on-becoming-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/319n-stories-where-teenagers-reflect-on-becoming-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"319N: Stories Where Teenagers Reflect on Becoming Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><tt class=\"letterText\">I read a collection of short stories in the late 80\u2019s (maybe very early 90\u2019s.)\u00a0 The stories from the collection that impacted me involved teenage girls coming of age.\u00a0 One story involved two teenage girls shoplifting at a Woolworth\u2019s (this helps date the collection maybe.)\u00a0 There was a story of a teenager babysitting some little girls whose mother was in the hospital after a terrible car accident.\u00a0 The mother passes away during the time the young woman was babysitting.\u00a0 She must act as an adult to break the news (or not) to the girls.\u00a0 This story had mermaids within the title.\u00a0 Another story involved a young woman at a wedding in a faux chalet-like event space.\u00a0 She goes off by herself (in a bridesmaid dress?) to have a moment alone reflecting on her new near-adulthood when some creep exposes himself to her.\u00a0 I\u2019m unsure if the collection was classified as YA, but the stories definitely resonated with me as teenager at the time. <\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a collection of short stories in the late 80\u2019s (maybe very early 90\u2019s.)\u00a0 The stories from the collection that impacted me involved teenage girls coming of age.\u00a0 One story involved two teenage girls shoplifting at a Woolworth\u2019s (this helps date the collection maybe.)\u00a0 There was a story of a teenager babysitting some little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,13,14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031"}],"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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}