{"id":1881,"date":"2025-09-20T05:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:21:10","slug":"the-friendly-dragon-by-ayesha-shuja-grade-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/the-friendly-dragon-by-ayesha-shuja-grade-3b\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friendly Dragon \u2013 by Ayesha Shuja, Grade 3B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2844\" data-end=\"3034\">In a faraway village, people were scared of a dragon living near the hills. One brave girl, Laila, decided to meet it. She carried some fruit and walked carefully toward the dragon\u2019s cave.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3036\" data-end=\"3216\">To her surprise, the dragon was sad and lonely. Laila gave it a hug and shared her fruit. Soon, they played games together, and the dragon smiled for the first time in many days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3036\" data-end=\"3216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pics.craiyon.com\/2023-11-03\/86dddd554dd84014af5a63d83b7ad3aa.webp\" alt=\"Hyper realistic artwork of a friendly dragon and a human on Craiyon\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3218\" data-end=\"3404\">When the villagers saw the dragon being kind, they stopped being afraid. The dragon became a friend to everyone. Laila showed that kindness and courage can change fear into friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a faraway village, people were scared of a dragon living near the hills. One brave girl, Laila, decided to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/the-friendly-dragon-by-ayesha-shuja-grade-3b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Friendly Dragon \u2013 by Ayesha Shuja, Grade 3B<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-learner","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.beaconhouse.net\/482\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}