{"id":2802,"date":"2022-03-09T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2022-03-10T01:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T01:16:04","slug":"horse-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/2022\/03\/09\/horse-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/HorseDream.Tang_.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#a30009\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201c<strong>Horse Dream<\/strong>\u201d <em>by Tang Li, age 9, Florida. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#710648\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Tang Li was born in the United States, and she speaks and learns to write in English, Mandarin, and French.&nbsp;She has had one-year horseback riding experience She is very fond of riding and taking care of horses, and she misses those good old days. She wants to be a&nbsp;veterinarian&nbsp;in the future; her dream hasn&#8217;t changed since she was four years old.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#830456\" class=\"has-inline-color\">In Tang\u2019s realistic fiction, <strong>Horse Dream<\/strong>, she used the main character Molly to realize her dream, by choosing an ideal location and a dream horse to ride. She began her creative writing by introducing Molly: \u201cHi. My name is Molly. I am ten years old and was born in Paris, Texas. Yes! It may sound crazy and this Paris even has an Eiffel Tower, just like the one in France. But this Eiffel Tower has a gigantic cowboy hat! My house is just a few blocks away from the Eiffel Tower.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color:#72034e\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cI have always dreamed of being a cowgirl. Horses are such beautiful animals!&nbsp;I begged mom and dad to sign me up for horseback riding lessons\u2026 In school, my favorite part was recess because I got to swing high up on the swings and to see the horse pasture on the other side of the school wall. My favorite horse was a horse named Fiona. She is a brown quarterback horse with a white mark shaped like a rhombus between her eyes. I always hoped to ride on Fiona someday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHorse Dream\u201d by Tang Li, age 9, Florida. Tang Li was born in the United States, and she speaks and learns to write in English, Mandarin, and French.&nbsp;She has had one-year horseback riding experience She is very fond of riding and taking care of horses, and she misses those good old days. She wants to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,12,23,3],"tags":[461,287],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-art","category-asian-american","category-childrens-art","category-nature","tag-horse-riding","tag-nature-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skippingstones.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}