{"id":5644,"date":"2020-12-13T07:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:14:31","slug":"1174-mystery-car-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/13\/1174-mystery-car-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"#1174 Mystery Car Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/13\/1174-mystery-car-challenge\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Recently, I discovered a car in the middle of Gatineau Park! The closest road was about a kilometre away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read further for photos, a video and a creative writing assignment&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/CarGatineauPark.jpg\" alt=\"Abandoned car - Gatineau Park\" class=\"wp-image-5645\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"\/><figcaption>Old car in the middle of Gatineau Park&#8230; <em>How did it get here?!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It got me wondering about the history of the micro area I was travelling through. My head filled with questions!:<br><em>&#8220;How long has the car been there?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Why is the car in the middle of a forest?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Where are the people who owned the car?&#8221;<br>&#8220;Why did the people leave the car here?&#8221;<br>&#8220;How did people get the car here?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/MysteryCar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5647\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/MysteryCar.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/MysteryCar-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Where are the missing pieces of the car?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The car is in the middle of Gatineau Park, a huge place (361 square kilometres or 139&nbsp;square&nbsp;miles) just north of Ottawa and Gatineau in Canada. <em>What happened to the missing parts of the car?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch to a video about the mystery of the car:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNezmk-yT6M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Your assignment<\/strong><em> &#8211; Use your imagination<\/em>:<br>\u2022 Write a story with words or pictures about the mystery car. Explain what it is and how it got there&#8230;<br>\u2022&nbsp;Create some artwork inspired by the mystery object.<br>\u2022&nbsp;Tell your partner a story about the mystery object<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Recently, I discovered a car in the middle of Gatineau Park! The closest road was about a kilometre away. Read further for photos, a video and a creative writing assignment&#8230; It got me wondering about the history of the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/13\/1174-mystery-car-challenge\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2F1174-mystery-car-challenge%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}