{"id":24695,"date":"2017-02-09T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24695"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T22:08:11","slug":"celebrating-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=24695","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Tu B&#8217;Shevat (the &#8220;birthday of the trees&#8221;), Zoe&#8217;s fourth grade class put on a special performance this morning. The kids put together the program themselves; they wrote and delivered their own poems, short stories or songs about the holiday and then sang a few songs as a group.<\/p>\n<p>The kids did a great job, and as Zoe read her poem to more than 100 people, I\u00c2\u00a0marveled over the fact\u00c2\u00a0that she and the others had the\u00c2\u00a0confidence (and guts) to stand up there and do their thing. It&#8217;s not an easy thing to do!<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFEXv4Y28K8\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24696\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-at-performance-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-at-performance-cropped.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-at-performance-cropped-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-classmates-singing-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-classmates-singing-cropped.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-classmates-singing-cropped-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24697\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-Mommy-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-Mommy-cropped.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Zoe-and-Mommy-cropped-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate Tu B&#8217;Shevat (the &#8220;birthday of the trees&#8221;), Zoe&#8217;s fourth grade class put on a special performance this morning. The kids put together the program themselves; they wrote and delivered their own poems, short stories or songs about the holiday and then sang a few songs as a group. The kids did a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-95-two-kids-jan-mar-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24703,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24695\/revisions\/24703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}