{"id":68,"date":"2005-10-16T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:31:31","slug":"what-happens-to-the-swiss-family-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/what-happens-to-the-swiss-family-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to the Swiss Family Robinson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=mjtate-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679436405?v=glance%26n=283155%26n=507846%26s=books%26v=glance\"><em><span style=\"color: #000066;\">The Swiss Family Robinson<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #000066;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mjtate-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/span><\/em> aloud as a family.<\/p>\n<p>Just before I began reading the final chapter, I  asked the boys to guess how they thought it would end.<\/p>\n<p>Forrest (aka Ernest):\u00a0 They&#8217;re all killed by  savages.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew (aka Fritz): They find a ship and are  rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Perry (aka Jack):\u00a0 They&#8217;re eaten by wild  animals.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas (aka Franz):\u00a0 They&#8217;re eaten by sharks.<\/p>\n<p>All of these are fairly reasonable theories,  based on events of the first 17 chapters, and most of these elements  show up in one way or another in the final chapter.<\/p>\n<p>So, who was right?<\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 No spoilers here!\u00a0 I urge you\u00a0to\u00a0read  this delightful book with your own family and find out for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo Tate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we finished reading The Swiss Family Robinson aloud as a family. Just before I began reading the final chapter, I asked the boys to guess how they thought it would end. Forrest (aka Ernest):\u00a0 They&#8217;re all killed by savages. Andrew (aka Fritz): They find a ship and are rescued. Perry (aka Jack):\u00a0 They&#8217;re &#8230; <a title=\"What Happens to the Swiss Family Robinson?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/what-happens-to-the-swiss-family-robinson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What Happens to the Swiss Family Robinson?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}