{"id":6341,"date":"2013-05-21T20:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2013-05-21T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:53:10","slug":"the-earthquake-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2013\/05\/the-earthquake-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earthquake Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6322\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/earthquake\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Earthquake\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-192x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-655x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6322\" alt=\"Earthquake\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-192x300.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-655x1024.jpg 655w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake-624x975.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2013\/05\/Earthquake.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>by <b>Mary Lowry \u201997<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Everything looks perfect in 14-year-old Rhonda\u2019s world, but in actuality, the only reliable person in her life is the Mexican yardman, Jes\u00fas. When he is deported, Rhonda seizes an opportunity to find her friend by swimming to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. When a peyote-addled bartender in the border town of Boquillas convinces her she won\u2019t be safe traveling alone, Rhonda assumes the identity of a Mexican boy. Thus begins a wild adventure that explores the borders between the U.S. and Mexico, adolescence and adulthood, male and female, English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><i>ISBN-13: 978-1456795856. AuthorHouse, 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mary Lowry \u201997 Everything looks perfect in 14-year-old Rhonda\u2019s world, but in actuality, the only reliable person in her life is the Mexican yardman, Jes\u00fas. When he is deported, Rhonda seizes an opportunity to find her friend by swimming to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. When a peyote-addled bartender in the border&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2013","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}