{"id":148,"date":"2010-04-18T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-05-30T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:55:36","slug":"back-from-dallaskidsread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Back from DallasKidsRead!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/other_media\/dallaskidsread1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a good time at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallaskidsread.org\/\">DallasKidsRead!<\/a> I met many great authors and illustrators and had fun performing for  the kids. The above photo shows me with a few of the authors including local author, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cweiskopf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Weiskopf<\/a>. She wrote some very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cweiskopf.com\/Books.htm\" target=\"_blank\">math books<\/a> proving that some authors can be good at writing <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> arithmetic (yeah, I&#8217;m not one of those authors).<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/v\/?i=91294574\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/v\/?i=91294574\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/library-91294574.html\">WFAA<\/a> shot some video of the beginning of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northparkcenter.com\/\">Northpark<\/a> event where the host, Mayor Tom Leppert, read a Dr. Sues book to the kids. I&#8217;m not in the above piece but there is a young boy reading my <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?page_id=107\">WordGirl<\/a> book&#8211;very cool!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallaskidsread.org\/sponsors\/\">sponsors<\/a> and everyone who came out to see us. And a special thanks to all the wonderful volunteers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdikids.org\/home.shtml\">Rainbow Days<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/dallaslibrary.org\/\">Dallas Public Library<\/a> for helping out. They were amazing at organizing and running this huge event!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for having me; I had a great time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had a good time at DallasKidsRead! I met many great authors and illustrators and had fun performing for the kids. The above photo shows me with a few of the authors including local author, Catherine Weiskopf. She wrote some very cool math books proving that some authors can be good at writing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}