{"id":2482,"date":"2017-01-02T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2017-01-02T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:35:39","slug":"the-bronze-bow-by-elizabeth-george-speare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/the-bronze-bow-by-elizabeth-george-speare\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is under the J section of the library &#8211; for Juvenile. My friend used this historical fiction in homeschooling her sons. I read it to consider using the book to teach English in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The historical setting is in the days of Jesus. These are a few short conversations between the main characters and Jesus, and I think they are in line with what Jesus might have said. I wouldn&#8217;t say it&#8217;s heretical to put those words in Jesus&#8217; mouth for the sake of a fictional story.<\/p>\n<p>The story gave me some insight into the Jews&#8217; experience of oppression under the Romans and the hatred they live with daily. I understand more about the Zealots. It even helped me understand more about the ministry of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>However, I don&#8217;t think I can use the book to teach English in Taiwan. It&#8217;s too hard to explain all the context with someone with zero background in Christianity\u00a0and low level English.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is under the J section of the library &#8211; for Juvenile. My friend used this historical fiction in homeschooling her sons. I read it to consider using the book to teach English in Taiwan. The historical setting is in the days of Jesus. These are a few short conversations between the main characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}