{"id":8520,"date":"2021-06-08T11:02:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:02:55","slug":"357q-sci-fi-book-including-men-of-harlech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/357q-sci-fi-book-including-men-of-harlech\/","title":{"rendered":"357Q: Sci-fi book including &#8220;Men of Harlech&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Some 60 years ago, I was reading a science-fiction book in which an adult was with two children, ca. 12 years old, on a trip of some sort.\u00a0 While they are out walking, he sang &#8220;Men of Harlech&#8221; to them; the words for a verse or two appear in the book:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Men of Harlech in the hollow, do ye hear like rushing billow &#8230;&#8221;, &amp;f.<\/div>\n<div>\nI recalled nothing else of the book until a few days ago when I suddenly recalled that a planet named &#8220;Lepton&#8221; figured in the book somehow; I thought this additional detail might be enough to find the book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The reason for such vagueness, beyond the 60-year time lapse, is that I never finished the book. I was perhaps 9 or 10 years old, but this wasn&#8217;t a children&#8217;s&#8217; book; the librarian jerked the book from my hands, telling me to &#8220;stop pretending to read that book&#8221; and go pick a book from the children&#8217;s&#8217; section instead.\u00a0 I could read the newspaper before I started 1st grade, so I was by no means pretending, and I wasn&#8217;t interested in children&#8217;s&#8217; books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>My mother had a somewhat heated talk with the librarian sometime later, and the librarian never bothered me again on subsequent visits.\u00a0 But I was unable to locate the book again.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 60 years ago, I was reading a science-fiction book in which an adult was with two children, ca. 12 years old, on a trip of some sort.\u00a0 While they are out walking, he sang &#8220;Men of Harlech&#8221; to them; the words for a verse or two appear in the book: &#8220;Men of Harlech in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,24,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520"}],"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=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8521,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}