{"id":183,"date":"2008-05-12T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T00:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-05-12T19:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T00:15:17","slug":"the-mysterious-edge-of-the-heroic-world-by-el-konigsburgatheneum-books-for-young-readers-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-mysterious-edge-of-the-heroic-world-by-el-konigsburgatheneum-books-for-young-readers-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. KonigsburgAtheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a kids&#8217; book after reading Proust felt funny, and I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to say about this book, other than that I read it in two days and stayed up past bedtime to finish it. Parts of this book&#8212;the mystery of it, the friendship between children and an eccentric old woman&#8212;reminded me of <em>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em>, though this book&#8217;s set in Florida, not New York, and concerns two boys helping to sort through an elderly neighbor&#8217;s belongings before an estate sale, rather than two kids running away to live at the Met. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading a kids&#8217; book after reading Proust felt funny, and I&#8217;m not sure I have anything to say about this book, other than that I read it in two days and stayed up past bedtime to finish it. Parts of this book&#8212;the mystery of it, the friendship between children and an eccentric old woman&#8212;reminded me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}