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The summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding\u2014remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. \u2022 He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. \u2022 Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. \u2022 Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream. \u2022 Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. \u2022 Could jump six-foot orchard walls. \u2022 Ran laughing. \u2022 Sat easy. \u2022 Was not a bully. \u2022 Was kind. \u2022 Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. \u2022 Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of. \u201c[Ray] Bradbury is an authentic original.\u201d\u2014Time<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"location":[8232,8231],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[25,24],"product_tag":[10600,10637,10159],"class_list":{"0":"post-6339","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"location-jp","7":"location-mum","8":"product_cat-fiction","9":"product_cat-novel","10":"product_tag-check-cost","11":"product_tag-check-cover","12":"product_tag-updated","13":"pa_bind-paperback","14":"pa_book-author-ray-bradbury","15":"pa_isbn-10-11064","16":"pa_isbn-13-2373","17":"pa_lang-english","18":"pa_no-pages-734","19":"pa_pub-year-369","20":"pa_publisher-bantam-books","22":"first","23":"instock","24":"shipping-taxable","25":"product-type-simple"},"locations":[{"id":8232,"name":"Jaipur","slug":"jp","quantity":"0"},{"id":8231,"name":"Mumbai","slug":"mum","quantity":"1"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasundharabooks.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}