{"id":8484,"date":"2021-05-18T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8484"},"modified":"2021-05-30T12:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:15:16","slug":"357c-70s-purple-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/357c-70s-purple-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"357C: 70s Purple Dragon (Solved!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I was in elementary school in the 70s and I remember reading what I think was an early chapter book series with a boy and his purple dragon\/dinosaur\/monster. The illustrations in my memory were very minimalist and had a Quentin Blake feel to them but I&#8217;ve researched Quentin Blake&#8217;s work and don&#8217;t see it listed. The dragon\/dinosaur\/monster was very tall, definitely purple, and walked on two legs. I have a vivid memory of the boy riding on its shoulders. I don&#8217;t remember anything about the plot except they seemed somewhat surreal (maybe?) so I don&#8217;t know if the creature was real or imaginary. It&#8217;s possible the series was school literature only (not mass market published).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in elementary school in the 70s and I remember reading what I think was an early chapter book series with a boy and his purple dragon\/dinosaur\/monster. The illustrations in my memory were very minimalist and had a Quentin Blake feel to them but I&#8217;ve researched Quentin Blake&#8217;s work and don&#8217;t see it listed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,28,4,18],"tags":[378,271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484"}],"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=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}