{"id":9280,"date":"2017-11-17T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=9280"},"modified":"2017-11-16T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T22:34:39","slug":"acosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2017\/acosta\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Haunted Pair of Ballet Slippers&#8221; &#8212; story by Maelee Rose Acosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2nd place<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Category 1 (ages 8-11)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The Haunted Pair of Ballet Slippers<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>by Maelee Rose Acosta<br \/>\n<\/strong>Age 11 (Grade 6)<br \/>\nBlair Middle School<\/p>\n<p>The little ballerina warned them! No one would listen to her. They had no idea of how dangerous the pair of ballet slippers could possibly be. Whenever she would put on her shoes during the class it would appear as though she is doing a crazy chicken dance. Once the teacher asked her to point her feet, she would \ufb02ex them; when she asked her to \ufb02ex her feet, she would point them. Everyone in her class thought that she was dyslexic or weird, but she was actually just a normal human being. One time she was so out of control that she twisted her ankle. The dancer could not take it any longer. So she threw one of her slippers breaking the glass mirror. The teachers yelled, \u201cYoung lady this is no place for a ballerina like you to throw things and damage them. You will have to pay a consequence and that is to never come back EVER AGAIN!\u201d Sadly, the ballerina left the dance studio, never to return again.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night on a full moon, the janitor went inside the studio. He noticed tiny little shattered pieces of a glass mirror on the \ufb02oor. Of course the right thing to do would be to clean it up. So, he rapidly rushed over to the closet to get a broom and a dustpan. As he walked over to the room he heard a soft tone of music. Each step sounded clearer to him. \u201cIt must just be my imagination,\u201d he thought. There was only one way to \ufb01nd out! He swiftly opened the door and saw two lonely ballet slippers dancing to the MUSIC!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Contest info: In 300 words or less, tell a ghost story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Special thanks to our judges: \u00a0Allison Hill (Vromans); Shauna Redmond, Jean Penn, Leela Perea, Robin Reidy and Rosa Cesaretti\u00a0(Pasadena Public Library).<\/p>\n<p>Copyedited by Faith Malicdem, Teen Blog Assistant<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To view more\u00a0stories from the contest, view the list:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2017\/ghost-story-contest-winners\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2017\/ghost-story-contest-winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 2nd place Category 1 (ages 8-11) The Haunted Pair of Ballet Slippers by Maelee Rose Acosta Age 11 (Grade 6) Blair Middle School The little ballerina warned them! No one would listen to her. They had no idea of how dangerous the pair of [&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":[190],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-9280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-young-readers-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s71KT0-acosta","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280","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=9280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9294,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9280\/revisions\/9294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}