{"id":6158,"date":"2014-06-24T01:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2014-06-24T01:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:45:31","slug":"a-hitch-at-the-fairmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/a-hitch-at-the-fairmont\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hitch at the Fairmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41u4pVi8mQL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1442494476\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1442494476&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=ZHLIQKTTSVMNDEQB\">A Hitch at the Fairmont<\/a><br \/>\nby Jim Averbeck (Author) and Nick Bertozzi (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> After the mysterious death of his mother, eleven-year-old Jack Fair is whisked away to San Francisco\u2019s swanky Fairmont Hotel by his wicked Aunt Edith. There, he seems doomed to a life of fetching chocolates for his aunt and her pet chinchilla. Until one night, when Aunt Edith disappears, and the only clue is a ransom note written\u2026in chocolate?<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, Jack finds himself all alone on a quest to discover who kidnapped Aunt Edith and what happened to his mother. Alone, that is, until he meets an unlikely accomplice\u2014Alfred Hitchcock himself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> Hitchcock was still shaken but seemed to calm down as he mopped his sodden brow. He folded his damp handkerchief in half four times. When he stuffed it in his pocket he was fully composed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose you thought that was clever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That woman wanted to help you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Into an orphanage,&#8221; said Jack. &#8220;Who would find Aunt Edith then?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hitchcock shrugged. &#8220;The police&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hitch at the Fairmont by Jim Averbeck (Author) and Nick Bertozzi (Illustrator) Booktalk: After the mysterious death of his mother, eleven-year-old Jack Fair is whisked away to San Francisco\u2019s swanky Fairmont Hotel by his wicked Aunt Edith. There, he seems doomed to a life of fetching chocolates for his aunt and her pet chinchilla. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/a-hitch-at-the-fairmont\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Hitch at the Fairmont<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}