{"id":45,"date":"2016-09-20T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/the-giant-scissors\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:03:27","slug":"the-giant-scissors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/the-giant-scissors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Scissors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-28\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scissors3.jpg\" style=\"height:282px; width:373px\" width=\"373\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scissors3.jpg 373w, https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/scissors3-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:18px\">THE GIANT SCISSORS&nbsp;(published 1898)<\/span><br \/>\nBY&nbsp;Annie Fellows Johnston &nbsp;(1863-1931)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-1-in-the-pear-tree\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; I. In&nbsp; the Pear-tree<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-2-a-new-fairy-tale\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; II. A New Fairy-tale<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-3-behind-the-great-gate\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; III. Behind the Great Gate<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-4-a-letter-and-a-meeting\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; IV. A Letter and a Meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-5-thanksgiving-barbecue\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; V. A Thanksgiving Barbecue<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-6-joyce-plays-ghost\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; VI. Joyce Plays Ghost<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-7-old-number-thirty-one\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; VII. Old &#8220;Number Thirty-one&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-8-christmas-plans-and-an-accident\/\">CHAPTER VIII. Christmas Plans and an Accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-9-a-great-discovery\/\">CHAPTER&nbsp; IX. A Great Discovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/book_reading_display\/giant-scissors-chapter-10-christmas\/\">CHAPTER X. Christmas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GIANT SCISSORS&nbsp;(published 1898) BY&nbsp;Annie Fellows Johnston &nbsp;(1863-1931) CHAPTER&nbsp; I. In&nbsp; the Pear-tree CHAPTER&nbsp; II. A New Fairy-tale CHAPTER&nbsp; III. Behind the Great Gate CHAPTER&nbsp; IV. A Letter and a Meeting CHAPTER&nbsp; V. A Thanksgiving Barbecue CHAPTER&nbsp; VI. Joyce Plays Ghost CHAPTER&nbsp; VII. Old &#8220;Number Thirty-one&#8221; CHAPTER VIII. Christmas Plans and an Accident CHAPTER&nbsp; IX. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}