{"id":5824,"date":"2014-03-24T01:35:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5824"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:35:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T06:35:15","slug":"monster-trucks-tearing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/monster-trucks-tearing-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Trucks: Tearing It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/6134nQb0FzL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1467721204\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1467721204&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20\">Monster Trucks: Tearing It Up<\/a><br \/>\nby Brian Howell (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Do you know what it&#8217;s like to drive a truck that is as big as an elephant? Despite their giant size, monster trucks can pull off soaring jumps, flips, and other epic stunts. These trucks compete head-to-head to reveal the fastest and the most agile of them all. Events such as the Monster Jam World Finals keep the crowds on the edges of their seats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> In monster truck racing, two trucks race to the other end of the arena. The trucks do a turn around an obstacle and race back to the finish line. During the last part of the race, the trucks go over a ramp that launches them into the air. After landing, the first truck to reach the finish line is the winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Site Meter\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Trucks: Tearing It Up by Brian Howell (Author) Booktalk: Do you know what it&#8217;s like to drive a truck that is as big as an elephant? Despite their giant size, monster trucks can pull off soaring jumps, flips, and other epic stunts. These trucks compete head-to-head to reveal the fastest and the most agile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/monster-trucks-tearing-it-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monster Trucks: Tearing It Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-nonfiction-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}