{"id":6049,"date":"2018-11-30T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2018-11-30T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T22:04:49","slug":"319w-artist-grandfather-helps-punished-granddaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/319w-artist-grandfather-helps-punished-granddaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"319W: Artist Grandfather Helps Punished Granddaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ng-scope\"><span class=\"ng-binding pronto-mail__from pronto-mail__address\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if you can help or not, but I\u2019m trying to remember a story that I either read or heard as a child. It goes something like this:<\/p>\n<p><em>There once lived a famous artist.\u00a0 He was highly respected and thought of everywhere, as a great man. \u00a0As fate would have it, the great man happened one day to travel through the city where his daughter and granddaughter lived.\u00a0 So he called and asked if he could join them for dinner.\u00a0 Of course he was invited with open arms.\u00a0 His daughter was very excited and determined that\u00a0all must be perfectly arranged, for after all, her father was a great man.\u00a0 In time the father came and they sat down to dinner.\u00a0 Soon a soup was served, and the man\u2019s little granddaughter, paying more attention to her grandfather than her manners, made a bit of a mess. This embarrassed and angered her mother. \u00a0So after dinner, the little girl was sent to stand in the corner until she could learn manners. The grandfather said nothing, and in time they all retired for the evening.\u00a0 The next morning the daughter came to prepare for the morning meal and was startled to see her father painting a beautiful mural in the corner where just the night before his granddaughter had stood. \u00a0It was the most beautiful mural she had ever seen, and it was obvious that her father had been up all night painting it.\u00a0 Why, she asked, why have you painted this?\u00a0 Then the grandfather said to her,\u00a0if my little granddaughter has to spend so much time standing in this corner,\u00a0 I want to be sure she has something beautiful to look at.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not sure if you can help or not, but I\u2019m trying to remember a story that I either read or heard as a child. It goes something like this: There once lived a famous artist.\u00a0 He was highly respected and thought of everywhere, as a great man. \u00a0As fate would have it, the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049"}],"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=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}