{"id":143,"date":"2007-07-03T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-07-03T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T00:52:09","slug":"just-in-case-by-meg-rosoffwendy-lamb-books-random-house-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/just-in-case-by-meg-rosoffwendy-lamb-books-random-house-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in Case by Meg RosoffWendy Lamb Books (Random House), 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Case is anxious&#8212;more than anxious, actually: he&#8217;s convinced that fate is out to get him. So he decides to change entirely, beginning with his name (now Justin Case), to hide from his fate, whatever it is: never mind that, as one of his friends puts is, &#8220;If there really is some supernatural force out to get you, you&#8217;re not exactly going to fool it by pretending to be someone else&#8221; (166). I like the unexplained strangenesses in this book: Justin&#8217;s (imaginary?) pet greyhound, odd moments of telepathy or near-telepathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Case is anxious&#8212;more than anxious, actually: he&#8217;s convinced that fate is out to get him. So he decides to change entirely, beginning with his name (now Justin Case), to hide from his fate, whatever it is: never mind that, as one of his friends puts is, &#8220;If there really is some supernatural force out [&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-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}