{"id":2160,"date":"2013-11-11T18:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:58:33","slug":"once-a-witch-by-carolyn-maccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2180 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Once-a-Witch.jpg\" alt=\"Once a Witch\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Tamsin was born, her grandmother predicted that she would be one of the most Talented witches in their family.\u00a0 Now that she is 17 years old, it seems pretty clear that Tamsin has no Talent and her grandmother must have been mistaken.\u00a0 She is really embarrassed by her lack of Talent and frequently wishes to be more like her older, more beautiful, and extremely Talented sister, Rowena.\u00a0 While working for her family&#8217;s bookstore\/magic shop, Tamsin is approached by a handsome young professor who would like help locating a family heirloom cuckoo clock.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Tamsin has no idea that locating this clock could upset the balance of good and evil.\u00a0 So, when he mistakenly calls her Rowena [who is fairly well known for her ability to locate lost items], she chooses not to correct him and, instead, tries to use this as an opportunity to prove herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tamsin was born, her grandmother predicted that she would be one of the most Talented witches in their family.\u00a0 Now that she is 17 years old, it seems pretty clear that Tamsin has no Talent and her grandmother must have been mistaken.\u00a0 She is really embarrassed by her lack of Talent and frequently wishes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}