{"id":6551,"date":"2015-03-25T01:12:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T06:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2015-03-25T01:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T06:12:21","slug":"ferry-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/ferry-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51m53o44nIL._SL250_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585368296\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1585368296&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=6DG7MKZUGNKQ6QIA\">Ferry Tail<\/a><br \/>\nby Katharine Kenah (Author) and Nicole Wong (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Walter the ferry dog loved to greet cars as they came on board each morning. Fetching the captain&#8217;s newspaper and tasting the cook&#8217;s bacon were Walter&#8217;s other important jobs. Cupcake the Cat was just about the only thing Walter disliked about being a ferry dog. One rainy day the waves were rough and no one was paying much attention to Walter. Even worse, Cupcakes was poking him with her paw and playing tricks as Walter was being blamed. He decided it was time to leave the ferry! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nOne gray day the weather matched Walter&#8217;s mood. He was tired of rough waves and rainy decks. The passengers were staying inside to keep warm. They were talking, reading, working, and eating. No one seemed to need his help. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2015 <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>Ferry Tail by Katharine Kenah (Author) and Nicole Wong (Illustrator) Booktalk: Walter the ferry dog loved to greet cars as they came on board each morning. Fetching the captain&#8217;s newspaper and tasting the cook&#8217;s bacon were Walter&#8217;s other important jobs. Cupcake the Cat was just about the only thing Walter disliked about being a ferry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/25\/ferry-tail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ferry Tail<\/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":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","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\/6551","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=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}