{"id":6758,"date":"2020-02-22T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2023-03-11T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:48:18","slug":"reading-response-to-the-scent-of-the-gods-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6758","title":{"rendered":"Reading response to &#8220;The Scent of the Gods&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Later I received a letter from Li Shin\ntelling me that he had been promoted to the captain of National Cadets. Also,\nhe told me that they finally had enough military power to fight for their\nfreedom and told us not to worried about him. Since that day, I hadn\u2019t received\nhis letters anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, the war between Singapore and the\nCommunists broke out. From the news, Li Yun and I knew that the communist was\nangry with the action of National Cadets. They sent troops to suppress it. The\nwar lasted for two years. Within the years, a man knocked on the door and gave\nme a letter with a yellow bullet. The letter was from Li Shin, the commander of\nNational Cadets. He told us not to open the bullet until I receive a red\nbullet. Since then, that man kept giving me bullet and letters telling me that\nLi Shin was safe and busy. Two years later, the final war started. The\nHeadquarters of the Communists was being attacked and the commander was\nassassinated. The National Cadets announced that Singapore was independent. But\nthe brave assassin sacrifices himself.&nbsp; The\nsurvivors found a red bullet and a beautifully packed letter which was later\nsent to my house. The assassin was Li Shin. He did it, he really achieved his\ndream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some months, a new government was set\nup. The brave warriors were buried under the memorable garden. To commemorate the\nsuccess of the independent. As for Li Shin, who sacrificed himself was buried\nnear our father, who also sacrificed himself to protect the National Cadets.\nThey were true heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After knowing the success of the National\nCadets and the death of Li Shin, Grandma didn&#8217;t show and feelings. But when she\nturned back, she gave out a smile. &#8220;Li Shin, you&#8217;re just like your\nfather.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Later I received a letter from Li Shitelling me that he had been promoted to the captain of National Cadets. Alsohe told me that they finally had enough military power to fight for theifreedom and told us not to worried about him. Since that day, I hadn\u2019t receivehis letters anymore.<\/p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><p>Later, the wa.........<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/6758\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","classlevel-s2","schoolyear-79"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}