{"id":69,"date":"2006-02-27T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-02-27T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T23:23:58","slug":"wet-magic-by-e-nesbitseastar-books-2001-originally-t-werner-laurie-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wet-magic-by-e-nesbitseastar-books-2001-originally-t-werner-laurie-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Magic by E. NesbitSeaStar Books, 2001 (originally T. Werner Laurie, 1913)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love E. Nesbit and  this book is especially lovely: four children go to the seaside for a summer holiday and learn, on the way there, that a mermaid has been sighted. This is very exciting news, especially for Francis, the eldest, who has never seen the sea before but is entranced by a print the family has of a nymph and the text of Milton&#8217;s &#8220;Sabrina fair.&#8221; The mermaid, it turns out, has been captured and put in a circus: the children set out to save her, and end up in the kingdom of the merpeople, where other adventures ensue. Classic Nesbit, clever and sweet and fun: the accent of the circus barker, shouting about the &#8220;Unique Lotus of the Heast,&#8221; the descriptions of the lobsters and porpoises and sea-horses, the idea of knowledge getting you into trouble and then getting you out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love E. Nesbit and this book is especially lovely: four children go to the seaside for a summer holiday and learn, on the way there, that a mermaid has been sighted. This is very exciting news, especially for Francis, the eldest, who has never seen the sea before but is entranced by a print [&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-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}