{"id":1280,"date":"2012-07-11T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2012-07-11T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:43:52","slug":"dallas-kids-read-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"2012 Dallas Kids Read!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dallaslibrary2.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0785.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0785\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0785.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0785-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI was fortunate enough to be a part of this year&#8217;s Dallas Kids Read! where I performed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dallaslibrary2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Public Library<\/a> on Sunday and on Monday, for the summer school students at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasisd.org\/Domain\/551\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Elementary<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dallaslibrary2.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0796.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0796\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0796.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0796-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt was great seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonisimmons.com\/biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Simmons<\/a> again on Sunday (whom I met at the 2010 Dallas Kids Read) and I shared Marcus Elementary with author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbenson.com\/05-06_pages\/general\/general1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandrina Drew<\/a>. I caught part of their presentations could see why the kids were so energized by the time I took the stage.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasisd.org\/Domain\/551\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0815.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0815\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0815.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCN0815-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Jo Giudice, Ronnie Jessie, the <a href=\"http:\/\/dallaslibrary2.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Public Library<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigthought.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Thought<\/a> for letting me be a part of this year&#8217;s events. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Target<\/a> for donating all the books for the kids. Thanks to Nora Nagel, Jasmine Africawala, and Victor Kralisz for all the help during the event. And a super-big thanks to all the kids who saw our shows. I hope you keep cool this summer and keep reading!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I was fortunate enough to be a part of this year&#8217;s Dallas Kids Read! where I performed at the Dallas Public Library on Sunday and on Monday, for the summer school students at Marcus Elementary. &nbsp; &nbsp; It was great seeing Toni Simmons again on Sunday (whom I met at the 2010 Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}