{"id":163,"date":"2016-05-31T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=163"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:56:02","slug":"nancy-drewsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/31\/nancy-drewsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Drewsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Old-Clock-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"Secret of the Old Clock\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Old-Clock-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Old-Clock-768x1215.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Old-Clock-648x1024.jpg 648w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Old-Clock.jpg 2064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>If it\u2019s Tuesday, it\u2019s time for Nancy Drews-day! That\u2019s right, a new blog feature to celebrate the world\u2019s most famous girl detective.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>I owe so much of my writing career to Nancy Drew. The Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene were my favorite childhood books. In fact, they\u2019re my favorite books of all times.<\/p>\n<p>As a young girl, I read all of her books \u2013 all 51 that were out at the time \u2013 and I read many of them over and over. The logical progression of a mystery seemed a perfect way to tell stories, so in elementary school I started writing mysteries about hidden treasures and stolen jewels and dognapping.\t`<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Nancy Drew, let me introduce her to you. Better yet, she\u2019s quite capable of introducing herself.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the very first page of the very first book, <em>The Secret of the Old Clock<\/em> (1959 version), which pretty much tells you everything you need to know: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of eighteen, was driving home along a country road in her new dark-blue convertible. She had just delivered some legal papers for her father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was sweet of Dad to give me this car for my birthday,\u201d she thought. \u201cAnd it\u2019s fun to help him in his work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Carson Drew, a well-known lawyer in their home town of River Heights, frequently discussed puzzling aspects of cases with his blond, blue-eyed daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, Nancy said to herself, \u201cDad depends on my intuition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An instant later she gasped in horror. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You just gotta love Nancy Drew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it\u2019s Tuesday, it\u2019s time for Nancy Drews-day! That\u2019s right, a new blog feature to celebrate the world\u2019s most famous girl detective. Why? I owe so much of my writing career to Nancy Drew. The Nancy Drew books by Carolyn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/31\/nancy-drewsday\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,38],"tags":[24,27],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nancy-drewsday","category-writing","tag-nancy-drew","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}