{"id":1650,"date":"2024-07-12T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:26:56","slug":"animals-near-and-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/animals-near-and-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals Near and Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/july2024QT800x800.png?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22018\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My new <em>Focus on STEM<\/em> column, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Focus-on-STEM-Animals-Near-Far-\/pid=9798996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Animals Near and Far<\/a><\/em>, is in the free July <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/quick-tips-for-schools-and-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries<\/a><\/em> newsletter from <em>Booklist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Focus on STEM column, Animals Near and Far, is in the free July Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter from Booklist. It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Copyright \u00a9 2024 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-qC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1252,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/amazing-animals\/","url_meta":{"origin":1650,"position":0},"title":"Amazing Animals","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 8, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"My new Focus on STEM column, Amazing Animals, is in the April Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter. 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