{"id":88,"date":"2006-07-05T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=88"},"modified":"2006-07-05T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:21:50","slug":"figgs-and-phantoms-by-ellen-raskinep-dutton-co-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/figgs-and-phantoms-by-ellen-raskinep-dutton-co-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Figgs and Phantoms by Ellen RaskinE.P. Dutton &#038; Co., 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raskin&#8217;s books are always smart and lots of fun, full of wordplay and absurdity. This one, which is about a teenager who&#8217;s embarrassed by her eccentric vaudevillian family, wasn&#8217;t as endearing to me as <i>The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)<\/i> or <i>The Westing Game<\/i>, but it was still quirky and pleasing. Also, I can&#8217;t help liking a book where a love of the written word is such a part of the story &#8212; funny handpainted signs, a bookselling-uncle, an auction, first editions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raskin&#8217;s books are always smart and lots of fun, full of wordplay and absurdity. This one, which is about a teenager who&#8217;s embarrassed by her eccentric vaudevillian family, wasn&#8217;t as endearing to me as The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) or The Westing Game, but it was still quirky and pleasing. Also, I [&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-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-adultchildrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}