{"id":7134,"date":"2020-02-13T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7134"},"modified":"2020-02-13T15:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T20:12:17","slug":"335x-lassie-like-story-dimly-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/335x-lassie-like-story-dimly-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"335X: Lassie-Like Story, Dimly Recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">It&#8217;s a book I read in the 1970s (but it may have been published much earlier).\u00a0 The central character is a family&#8217;s pet&#8211;a cat I think, but I&#8217;m unsure.\u00a0 Maybe a dog.\u00a0 The family lives on a river, maybe the Mississippi.\u00a0 (My family was living on the river at the time, and the story may have been presented as a &#8220;local&#8221; tale.)\u00a0 By accident one day the pet floats away on a raft.\u00a0 Far downstream it comes ashore.\u00a0 The heart of the story is akin to Lassie-Come-Home:\u00a0 the pet struggles to return to the family.\u00a0 In the closing pages I believe it does return to the house&#8211;but the family is just leaving and somehow there is no reunion.\u00a0 Possibly the pet is even in the yard as the family packs out, and it hears the son&#8217;s voice as he laments that the pet never got back.\u00a0 I could be imagining that last bit, but I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s no reunion.\u00a0 I recall weeping at the near-miss, but all the other details are fuzzy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a book I read in the 1970s (but it may have been published much earlier).\u00a0 The central character is a family&#8217;s pet&#8211;a cat I think, but I&#8217;m unsure.\u00a0 Maybe a dog.\u00a0 The family lives on a river, maybe the Mississippi.\u00a0 (My family was living on the river at the time, and the story may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,19],"tags":[208,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134"}],"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=7134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7134\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}