{"id":699,"date":"2011-05-19T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=699"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:42:35","slug":"the-sweetheart-of-prosper-county-by-jill-s-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Jill S. Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-749 size-full\" title=\"The Sweetheart of Prosper County\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Sweetheart-of-Prosper-County.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Gray wants to be a \u201chood ornament\u201d in the No-Jesus Christmas Parade more than anything.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019s sick and tired of being the butt of Dean Ottmer\u2019s jokes, and she\u2019s\u00a0sure this plan will turn things around.\u00a0 She just needs to join the FFA [Future Farmers of America], make some friends, raise an animal to show at the fair, and win a blue ribbon.\u00a0 THEN, she can be elected the FFA hood ornament.\u00a0 Simple, right?<\/p>\n<p>This story is about so much more than a girl who is trying to win a popularity contest to defeat a bully, though.\u00a0 It\u2019s about a mother and daughter who are still trying to work past the loss of a husband and father.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the dynamics of a small town where everyone knows \u201ceverything\u201d about everyone.\u00a0 And, it\u2019s about how Austin finally gets to the realization that Dean Ottmer\u2019s opinion is \u201cas significant to [her] life as a fart in a tornado.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Gray wants to be a \u201chood ornament\u201d in the No-Jesus Christmas Parade more than anything.\u00a0\u00a0She\u2019s sick and tired of being the butt of Dean Ottmer\u2019s jokes, and she\u2019s\u00a0sure this plan will turn things around.\u00a0 She just needs to join the FFA [Future Farmers of America], make some friends, raise an animal to show at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sweetheart of Prosper County by Jill S. Alexander<\/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-699","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\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}