{"id":25653,"date":"2018-04-23T01:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25653"},"modified":"2018-04-23T01:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T05:05:30","slug":"%e3%80%8alessons-for-elementary-schools-15%e3%80%8b__-kong-shiu-loon-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25653","title":{"rendered":"\u300aLessons for Elementary Schools (15)\u300b__ Kong Shiu Loon (53)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Everyone Is A Poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrandpa, do you write poems?\u201d Nancy asks the minute she gets home from school.<br \/>\n\u201cWell, I tried once, long ago, when I was in Grade 4, back in the old country.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThat makes you a poet. I like to have your poem.\u2019<br \/>\n\u201cI do remember it well, because it is the only one. It has only two lines: \u2018I like to be a cloud, Freely I float around,\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s great!\u201d Nancy applauds. \u201cI like it, Grandpa. We have a very special visitor in class today, a poet from India whom Mr. Shaw knows by correspondence. He recited many poems in Bengali. They sounded just like music. They are beautiful even when we did not understand the words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wykontario.org\/index.php\/featured-articles\/3017-lessons-for-elementary-school-15-kong-shiu-loon-53\">Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone Is A Poet \u201cGrandpa, do you write poems?\u201d Nancy asks the minute she gets home from school. \u201cWell, I tried once, long ago, when I was in Grade 4, back in the old country.\u201d \u201cThat makes you a poet. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=25653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-25653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-elementary-schools","tag-sl-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25654,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25653\/revisions\/25654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}