{"id":555,"date":"2019-10-04T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-10-03T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T02:11:47","slug":"a-different-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/a-different-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/differentstory_0-595x822.jpg?resize=525%2C725&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"725\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2IlL7F7\">A Different Story<\/a><br \/>\nby Adolfo Serra (Author \/ Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Sometimes the world is a small place. Other times it feels huge. Sometimes we feel as though we\u2019re sinking. Other days we can soar. And every creature on Earth is unique. But no matter what the circumstances are, no matter how different we may seem, even a rhinoceros and a beetle have something in common.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/differentstory_1.jpg?resize=269%2C188&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9759\" \/><\/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>A Different Story by Adolfo Serra (Author \/ Illustrator) Booktalk: Sometimes the world is a small place. Other times it feels huge. Sometimes we feel as though we\u2019re sinking. Other days we can soar. And every creature on Earth is unique. But no matter what the circumstances are, no matter how different we may seem, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/a-different-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Different Story&#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_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-555","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-8X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":567,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/arithmechicks-add-up-a-math-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":555,"position":0},"title":"Arithmechicks Add Up: A Math Story","author":"Sue Heavenrich","date":"October 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"by Ann Marie Stephens; illus. by Jia Liu 32 pages; ages 4-8 Boyds Mills Press, 2019 Don\u2019t call these mathematicians \u201cbird brains\u201d \u2013 because they are busy solving problems. 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