{"id":2388,"date":"2014-10-20T21:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2014-10-20T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T02:35:48","slug":"first-mississippi-author-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"First Mississippi Author Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison-schools.com\/mak2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5157.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN5157\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5157.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5157-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy first ever school visit to Mississippi greeted me with a welcome sign right out front of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison-schools.com\/mak2\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Avenue Elementary<\/a>, in Madison, MS! Inside, I was greeted by tons of students who already knew me on sight and were anxious to see the show! I went on to give three performances for Kinder, First, and Second Grade with plenty of book-signing in between.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5156.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5156-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN5156\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5156-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5156-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5156.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFor more pictures from the action-packed day (as well as some previous MAE author and illustrator visits), be sure to visit the official MAE Library website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison-schools.com\/domain\/518\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison-schools.com\/mak2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5120.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN5120\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5120.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5120-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Mrs. Wilson for making my first school visit in Mississippi a true pleasure. Thanks to her again and the MAE PTO for inviting me. Thanks to Katia for taking pictures and for all her help. Thanks to all the kids who brought books to sign and a big Texas thank you from me to all the MAE students! I hope you had as much fun watching as I did performing!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/DSCN5130-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN5130\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2392\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; My first ever school visit to Mississippi greeted me with a welcome sign right out front of Madison Avenue Elementary, in Madison, MS! Inside, I was greeted by tons of students who already knew me on sight and were anxious to see the show! I went on to give three performances for Kinder, [&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\/2388"}],"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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}