{"id":295,"date":"2019-02-22T09:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=295"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:28:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:28:36","slug":"the-squirrel-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-squirrel-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Squirrel Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/squirrelmanifesto-595x595.jpg?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8256\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2U1nTYZ\">The Squirrel Manifesto<\/a><br \/>\nby Ric Edelman (Author), Jean Edelman (Author), and Dave Zaboski (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A modern-day fable in the spirit of <em>The Ant and the Grasshopper<\/em> that teaches kids&#8211;and their parents&#8211;the value of spending money, saving for the future, and giving to charity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf we save just a little<br \/>\na couple nuts at a time,<\/p>\n<p>it leads to what matters:<br \/>\nSquirrel Peace of Mind.<\/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 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Squirrel Manifesto by Ric Edelman (Author), Jean Edelman (Author), and Dave Zaboski (Illustrator) Booktalk: A modern-day fable in the spirit of The Ant and the Grasshopper that teaches kids&#8211;and their parents&#8211;the value of spending money, saving for the future, and giving to charity. Snippet: If we save just a little a couple nuts at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-squirrel-manifesto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Squirrel Manifesto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","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-4L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1036,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/mammal-mania-30-activities-and-observations-for-exploring-the-world-of-mammals\/","url_meta":{"origin":295,"position":0},"title":"Mammal Mania: 30 Activities and Observations for Exploring the World of Mammals","author":"@roberta3","date":"May 7, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's look at the newest title in Chicago Review Press's Young Naturalist series, Mammal Mania: 30 Activities and Observations for Exploring the World of Mammals by Lisa J. 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