{"id":838,"date":"2016-01-13T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcslibraryhouse.wordpress.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:42:54","slug":"last-stop-on-market-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/2016\/01\/13\/last-stop-on-market-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Stop On Market Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you hate standing in the rain waiting for your bus to arrive? Yeah, that happens a lot. In fact, it happened to a young boy named CJ and his nana on their regular Sunday morning after church. Every time a car pass by, CJ always asks his nana, &#8220;<em>Nana, how come we don&#8217;t have a car?<\/em>&#8221; and his nana always answers a encouraging question. When a few kids aboard the bus, CJ sees that they have iPods and asks his nana why he doesn&#8217;t have one and his nana answers that they have music right in front of them, a guitar player playing a song.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-869 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queloque.chcs89.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/last-stop-on-market-street.jpg?resize=260%2C319\" alt=\"Last Stop on Market Street\" width=\"260\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queloque.chcs89.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/last-stop-on-market-street.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queloque.chcs89.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/last-stop-on-market-street.jpg?resize=245%2C300&amp;ssl=1 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 His nana told him to close his eyes and listen to the music, as told by a blind man and when he closed his eyes, he drifted away. Following the beat of the music, he lost track of time and the song was over. CJ gave a quarter to the guitar player and then his nana started to knit. When they go to their stop, the last stop on Market Street, CJ wondered why they went to a street that was so dirty. His nana answered that if you concentrate, you can see the beauty. After walking, they get to their destination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This book recently won a Newbery medal and it indeed deserved it. This book made me wonder what would it be like if I didn&#8217;t had a car and if I would enjoy it or not.\u00a0<em>Last Stop On Market Street<\/em> shows you that not owning a car has its own advantages in very unique ways that you have never thought of. You can find this book in the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you hate standing in the rain waiting for your bus to arrive? Yeah, that happens a lot. In fact, it happened to a young boy named CJ and his nana on their regular Sunday morning after church. Every time a car pass by, CJ always asks his nana, &#8220;Nana, how come we don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queloque.chcs89.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}