{"id":40579,"date":"2014-03-24T05:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40579"},"modified":"2014-03-23T18:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:35:14","slug":"flat-stanleys-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40579","title":{"rendered":"Flat Stanley’s Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parachutecutie sends us a link to USAToday<\/a> and the story of Brian Owens, Alan Orduna and Flat Stanley. Not our usual fare, but a god way to kick off your week;<\/p>\n

10 years ago, in the painstaking scrawl of an 8-year-old, Alan Orduna [wrote a letter].<\/p>\n

The Huntsville, Ark., boy, along with other students in Wood’s class, penned a note to accompany a paper cut-out modeled after the title character in the popular children’s book “Flat Stanley.” After being smashed by a bulletin board in his sleep, the book’s protagonist makes the most of his new 2-D state by mailing himself to friends.<\/p>\n

Wood asked her students to send their Stanley cut-outs to relatives or friends, who would then take them on a journey and detail the characters’ exploits in a letter back.<\/p>\n

Alan didn’t have a friend in mind \u2014 or at least not one who would take Stanley on an adventure worthy of a third-grader’s imagination. So, Wood sent Alan’s packet off to an Army unit stationed in Baghdad and asked Alan to wait.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click over to the link above and read the rest, it’s a long story but worth your while. Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parachutecutie sends us a link to USAToday and the story of Brian Owens, Alan Orduna and … Flat Stanley’s Odyssey<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}