{"id":9201,"date":"2023-12-01T04:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9201"},"modified":"2023-12-01T04:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:43:23","slug":"the-words-we-share-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-words-we-share-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Words We Share 5\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Immigrant kids learn English more quickly than their parents and so often have to translate for them. This role-reversal can be demeaning for the parent and burdensome for the child, but Jack Wong shows that there&#8217;s more to communication than knowing the right words. His illustrations have a graphic novel feel to them and they make the story very approachable. The text is everything that&#8217;s needed but no more, making it crisp and clear to read. I love that the father&#8217;s words are written both in English and Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple, beautiful, brilliant and universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"785\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-785x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-1570x2048.jpg 1570w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words-1200x1565.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/words.jpg 1600w\" 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>Immigrant kids learn English more quickly than their parents and so often have to translate for them. This role-reversal can be demeaning for the parent and burdensome for the child, but Jack Wong shows that there&#8217;s more to communication than knowing the right words. His illustrations have a graphic novel feel to them and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-words-we-share-5-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Words We Share 5\/5&#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":[168],"tags":[789,790,752],"class_list":["post-9201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-annick","tag-jack-wong","tag-netgalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201","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=9201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9204,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9201\/revisions\/9204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}