{"id":15007,"date":"2019-11-23T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=15007"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:18:36","slug":"young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2019\/young\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret &#8212; a story by Aaron Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Young Readers League 2019 &#8220;Hidden History&#8221; Writing Contest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Category 1: ages 8-11)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secret\u201d<\/p>\n<p>by Aaron Young<\/p>\n<p>Grade 3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Summary:\u00a0 <em>Zach finds out something interesting about his father.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a kid named Zach who had a dad named Cody Bellinger. They lived in a fancy house in Oregon. Zach wanted to be a baseball player when he grew up. One day they traveled to Los Angeles and went to a Dodgers game. Zach and his mother were seated in the stands near home plate watching the game. Halfway through the game a player caught a home run. An excited fan screamed, \u201cIt\u2019s Cody Bellinger, the MVP of the last season!\u201d Suddenly Zach recognized his father on the field as the player who caught the home run. OMG! Zach could not believe it. That was his dad!<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the game when they returned home, he said to his dad, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell me that you are a famous baseball player and the MVP for the division?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His dad smiled and said, \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t want you to brag about me at school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell I wouldn\u2019t,\u201d said Zach. \u201cBut I\u2019m so proud that you\u2019re my dad\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Then his dad hugged him and tucked him into bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2019\/hidden-history\/\">CLICK HERE to view the full list of the Hidden History Contest Winners:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2019\/hidden-history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Readers League 2019 &#8220;Hidden History&#8221; Writing Contest Honorable Mention (Category 1: ages 8-11) &nbsp; \u201cThe Secret\u201d by Aaron Young Grade 3 &nbsp; Summary:\u00a0 Zach finds out something interesting about his father. &nbsp; There was a kid named Zach who had a dad named Cody Bellinger. They lived in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[229,190],"tags":[133,117],"class_list":["post-15007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-writing","tag-contest","tag-young-readers-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s71KT0-young","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15007\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}