{"id":6374,"date":"2014-10-20T01:39:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T06:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2014-10-20T01:39:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T06:39:37","slug":"the-kite-that-bridged-two-nations-homan-walsh-and-the-first-niagara-suspension-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/the-kite-that-bridged-two-nations-homan-walsh-and-the-first-niagara-suspension-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51D7QEME8JL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1590789385\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1590789385&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=ITMLU5ONP75SDGJC\">The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge<\/a><br \/>\nby Alexis O&#8217;Neill (Author) and Terry Widener (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Homan Walsh loves to fly his kite. And when a contest is announced to see whose kite string can span Niagara Falls, Homan is set on winning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nThrough snow, on ice, and two miles north,<br \/>\nI took my place above the grasping Whirlpool Rapids.<br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t look down,<\/em> I told myself.<\/p>\n<p>I set my gaze aloft and launched my kite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" \/><\/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\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge by Alexis O&#8217;Neill (Author) and Terry Widener (Illustrator) Booktalk: Homan Walsh loves to fly his kite. And when a contest is announced to see whose kite string can span Niagara Falls, Homan is set on winning&#8230; Snippet: Through snow, on ice, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/the-kite-that-bridged-two-nations-homan-walsh-and-the-first-niagara-suspension-bridge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Kite that Bridged Two Nations: Homan Walsh and the First Niagara Suspension Bridge<\/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":[6,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374","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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}