{"id":50,"date":"2008-05-24T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2010-06-22T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T00:36:45","slug":"an-amazonian-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/an-amazonian-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"An Amazonian Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/bellacover.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>So I was at the library today trying to find one of my favorite books as a kid, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bella<\/span> by Anne and Edward Syfret.  It is about an evil doll and two friends during World War II ish.  It&#8217;s much more clever than that description, and I just loved it, and have read it multiple times even as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Despite heroic effort on the part of two children&#8217;s librarians, today I discovered that the library has GOTTEN RID OF MY PRECIOUS BOOK. <strong>NOOOOO. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As an admitted bookaholic, anytime the library gets rid of books, even if they suck, a part of me dies a little inside.  I love books. I looooove books.  If <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bella<\/span>, an awesome little book that is much more sophisticated than a lot of contemporary children&#8217;s books, is doomed, what does that say about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helen_Dore_Boylston\" target=\"_blank\">Sue Barton, Student Nurse<\/a>?? My heart it doth break should more classics be relegated to the trash.<\/p>\n<p>So I went on Amazon and bought the book, a sturdy library version, even, for $1.50. The shipping cost more than the book.  And when it arrives, it ushers in a new era: The Melissa Buying Every Children&#8217;s Book She Has Ever Liked Era.<\/p>\n<p>It was bound to happen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/an-amazonian-triumph\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was at the library today trying to find one of my favorite books as a kid, Bella by Anne and Edward Syfret. It is about an evil doll and two friends during World War II ish. It&#8217;s much more clever than that description, and I just loved it, and have read it multiple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/an-amazonian-triumph\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Amazonian Triumph&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksreading","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}