{"id":8787,"date":"2023-04-20T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2023-04-20T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:44:31","slug":"favorite-questions-from-eleanor-van-gelder-nj-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/favorite-questions-from-eleanor-van-gelder-nj-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite questions from Eleanor Van Gelder (NJ) students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I like to leave lots of room for questions when presenting to students and this morning&#8217;s questions were superb! The topic was Winterkill, set during the Holodomor. Plus, I always talk about my own struggles as a kid, for example not reading til I was 9, and being bullied. Here are some of my favorite questions of the day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Holodomor was such a huge event, how was it possible to hide it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did you deal with the bullying, and were you able to get it to stop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you ever regret writing your first book about the Holodomor (Enough), seeing as you were subjected to so much hate because of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"463\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL.jpg\" alt=\"enough\" class=\"wp-image-54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL-139x150.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/enoughL-278x300.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 85vw, 463px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Winterkill_FrontCover_rev-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Winterkill_FrontCover_rev-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Winterkill_FrontCover_rev-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Winterkill_FrontCover_rev-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Winterkill_FrontCover_rev.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to leave lots of room for questions when presenting to students and this morning&#8217;s questions were superb! The topic was Winterkill, set during the Holodomor. Plus, I always talk about my own struggles as a kid, for example not reading til I was 9, and being bullied. Here are some of my favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/favorite-questions-from-eleanor-van-gelder-nj-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Favorite questions from Eleanor Van Gelder (NJ) students&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[233,353,7,475,609],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-virtual-visits","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}