{"id":936,"date":"2018-01-01T20:28:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T20:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2018-01-28T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T01:09:51","slug":"the-very-hungry-caterpillar-and-the-theory-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"The Very Hungry Caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a reward for completing my one-book-a-week project in 2017, my family gifted me a beautiful book as Christmas present: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Having not been exposed to many picture books as a child, I first saw and read this at my friend <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theology.ox.ac.uk\/people\/dr-mary-marshall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Mary Marshall<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s office in Oxford a few years ago. It was fascinating. The book is also made into an animated film below<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/75NQK-Sm1YY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is surreal to hold my present and read it, as if I have wound back the clock and returned to my childhood. I want to be that caterpillar! Perhaps I have been one after all, merely hungry for a different kind of food: knowledge. Naturally, this little book reminded me how little commitment reading could be, compared with all my other books during 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What kind of butterfly do I want to transform into? How? What are the steps to take?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a reward for completing my one-book-a-week project in 2017, my family gifted me a beautiful book as Christmas present: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Having not been exposed to many picture books as a child, I first saw and read this at my friend Dr. Mary Marshall\u2019s office in Oxford a few years ago. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/?p=936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paFL7T-f6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dongpingzhang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}