{"id":132,"date":"2007-04-10T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=132"},"modified":"2007-04-10T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T01:24:57","slug":"jeremy-fink-and-the-meaning-of-life-by-wendy-masslittle-brown-and-company-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/jeremy-fink-and-the-meaning-of-life-by-wendy-masslittle-brown-and-company-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy MassLittle, Brown and Company, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a month from Jeremy Fink&#8217;s 13th birthday when a mysterious package arrives at his apartment. Inside, there&#8217;s a locked wooden box with four keyholes; the box is engraved with the words &#8220;The meaning of life: for Jeremy Fink to open on his 13th birthday.&#8221; Jeremy recognizes the engraving as the unmistakable work of his father, who died in an accident five years earlier. The only problem: the letter accompanying the package, from his father&#8217;s lawyer, says that the keys to the box are missing. And so: Jeremy and his best friend Lizzy set out to find them, making other unexpected discoveries along the way. This book reminded me of <em>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em>, which is definitely a good thing: the mystery\/quest aspect of the plot, plus the brother\/sister-ish companionship of Jeremy and Lizzy, and the sense that these are smart\/interesting\/quirky kids: all around, a pleasing book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a month from Jeremy Fink&#8217;s 13th birthday when a mysterious package arrives at his apartment. Inside, there&#8217;s a locked wooden box with four keyholes; the box is engraved with the words &#8220;The meaning of life: for Jeremy Fink to open on his 13th birthday.&#8221; Jeremy recognizes the engraving as the unmistakable work of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}