{"id":2711,"date":"2023-08-12T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T12:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:47:57","slug":"another-game-of-tag-by-radiance-angelina-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Another Game of Tag, by Radiance Angelina Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Game of Tag<br \/>\nby<br \/>\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once, my second graders and I were playing tag<br \/>\non recess, on the newly mowed field,<br \/>\nwhen suddenly<\/p>\n<p>a hawk<\/p>\n<p>swooped out of nowhere, dove,<br \/>\nsnatched up a very surprised squirrel from<br \/>\nthe center of the field, and lifted it to a branch<br \/>\nin a nearby tree.<\/p>\n<p>My students and I stood stunned,<br \/>\neyes wide, mouths unsure whether<br \/>\nto make an \u201cO,\u201d or grimace.<\/p>\n<p>We could see the hawk dipping its beak<br \/>\ninto the squirrel&#8211;pulling out purple bits and pieces,<br \/>\nand when the recess bell rang<br \/>\nwe walked slowly back to class knowing<br \/>\nwhatever it was we were about to go learn<br \/>\nwould mean little compared to this.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, my students<br \/>\nfound the squirrel\u2019s tail at the base of the tree.<br \/>\nWe marveled at it. \u201cCan we keep it?\u201d asked one.<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s gross,\u201d said another.\u201d I said: \u201cI think<br \/>\nwe should leave it where it is.\u201d<br \/>\nBut one student stuffed it in his pocket<br \/>\nand said: \u201cI\u2019m taking it home to show my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We shrugged and nodded, and went to go start<br \/>\nanother game of tag.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Game of Tag by Radiance Angelina Petro &nbsp; Once, my second graders and I were playing tag on recess, on the newly mowed field, when suddenly a hawk swooped out of nowhere, dove, snatched up a very surprised squirrel from the center of the field, and lifted it to a branch in a nearby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}