{"id":609,"date":"2023-03-16T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2023-03-16T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:38:04","slug":"bringing-the-rain-to-kapiti-plain-by-verna-aardema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain, by Verna Aardema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This a tale about the great Kapiti Plain and what happens when it does not rain? It describes how the animals have nothing to drink and the grass stops growing so the cows cannot eat either. It details how widespread the impact of drought can be for all different animals and humans but does so using a riddles and proverbs from Nandi children, who believed they had found a way to make it rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-1024x420.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-1024x420.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-300x123.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-768x315.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-1536x630.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-1200x492.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54-1568x643.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-03-16-at-11.32.54.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This a tale about the great Kapiti Plain and what happens when it does not rain? It describes how the animals have nothing to drink and the grass stops growing so the cows cannot eat either. It details how widespread the impact of drought can be for all different animals and humans but does so<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain, by Verna Aardema&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwormsarereal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}