{"id":9108,"date":"2022-07-10T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9108"},"modified":"2022-07-10T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:04:30","slug":"366a-fairy-tale-i-read-in-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/366a-fairy-tale-i-read-in-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"366A: Fairy tale I read in the 1970\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m trying to find the name of a book I read when I was a kid, what I can remember of the story is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of friends set off on an adventure. Along the way they find a magic carpet or rug that when rolled out, magically produced a feast. They then came upon a cat that when stroked began to purr and pearls popped out of its mouth. The third magical item the found was a stick or switch that they didn\u2019t know what magical purpose it had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An unscrupulous inn-keeper saw them using the carpet and the cat and stole them. He didn\u2019t know what the switch did either but figured it must do something. He found that, when he stole it, the magic stick beats dishonest people until they confessed their crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s all I can recall &#8211; if anyone can solve the puzzle and let me know the title and who wrote it, I would be most grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m trying to find the name of a book I read when I was a kid, what I can remember of the story is: A group of friends set off on an adventure. Along the way they find a magic carpet or rug that when rolled out, magically produced a feast. They then came upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,22,19],"tags":[175,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108"}],"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=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9110,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}