{"id":7779,"date":"2020-09-24T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=7779"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:44:25","slug":"345y-american-girl-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/345y-american-girl-self-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"345Y: American Girl &#8220;Self Improvement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>I am looking for the title of a book given to me by my father around mid-late 1960&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was about a pre-teen girl growing up, trying to improve, organize and schedule her day to day life. More like a Nancy Drew &#8220;good girl&#8221; type, unruly hair, awkward.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think it must have been written earlier, 1940&#8217;s or 50&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The book was written in the first person, humorous and light.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I remember a strict but kind father, older sister and school friends\/enemies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Possibly a first dance. Lots of list and schedule making to improve herself, waking, school work, etc., minute by minute.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve got. Maybe this will ring a bell with someone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking for the title of a book given to me by my father around mid-late 1960&#8217;s. It was about a pre-teen girl growing up, trying to improve, organize and schedule her day to day life. More like a Nancy Drew &#8220;good girl&#8221; type, unruly hair, awkward. I think it must have been written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,19],"tags":[250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779"}],"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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7780,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}