{"id":242,"date":"2011-03-11T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:44:51","slug":"read-aloud-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Read Aloud Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irvingisd.net\/brown\/index.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243\" title=\"otisbrown\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/otisbrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/otisbrown.jpg 497w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/otisbrown-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/otisbrown-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI just returned from an exciting author visit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irvingisd.net\/brown\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Otis Brown Elementary<\/a> in Irving, Texas. I was their main presenter for a very special day&#8230; Read Aloud Day!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI put on my show, met a bunch of great kids, and I even got to read aloud from one of my <em>own<\/em> books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0764146726?tag=michaelacom-20&#038;camp=14573&#038;creative=327641&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=0764146726&#038;adid=0MBC6KS3YTZ70P8X9P6V&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian<\/a>. I hope all the students had as much fun as I did. And I hope they enjoyed listening to all the readers throughout the day. It sounded as if everyone was thoroughly enjoying\u00a0 themselves.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nA big thanks to Ms. Hicks for inviting me, to Ms. Reich for all the help, and to all the faculty and staff who provided the great food (loved the chorizo tacos). <\/p>\n<p>And I want to give a special thanks to all the great kids at Otis Brown Elementary! Remember the four words and keep reading!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I just returned from an exciting author visit at Otis Brown Elementary in Irving, Texas. I was their main presenter for a very special day&#8230; Read Aloud Day! &nbsp; I put on my show, met a bunch of great kids, and I even got to read aloud from one of my own books, [&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":[115,56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}