{"id":2998,"date":"2015-12-04T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2018-10-04T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T21:27:44","slug":"a-cast-of-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"A Cast of Characters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brock.burlesonisd.net\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7946.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7946\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7946.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7946-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nToday was \u201cCharacter Day\u201d at <a href=\"http:\/\/brock.burlesonisd.net\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Elementary<\/a> in Burleson, Texas where, for once, I wasn\u2019t the biggest character in school! All the students and teachers were dressed as his or her favorite book characters so I had an interesting view from the stage to say the least.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brock.burlesonisd.net\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7906.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7906\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7906.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7906-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI gave three shows to three great groups of Brock Tigers and even signed a bunch of books. Speaking of which, I\u2019m sorry that I missed signing your <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?page_id=87\" target=\"_blank\">Speed Racer<\/a> book, Nicolas. But as I mentioned, if I missed anyone, feel free to mail it to me with an SASE (we still remember what this is, right?) and I\u2019ll sign it and get it right back to you. I\u2019m happy to sign as many as you like!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brock.burlesonisd.net\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7945.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7945\" width=\"500\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7945.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7945-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Mrs. Wellman (AKA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arnie-Doughnut-The-Adventures\/dp\/0805062831\" target=\"_blank\">Arnie the Doughnut<\/a>) for inviting me and for the riveting lunch conversation (not to mention the fun stories in the teachers\u2019 lounge\u2014I always knew that they were having way more fun in there than they let on). Thanks to Mrs. Gustin for helping setting up. Thanks to Mrs. Tucker for the introductions. Thanks to Mrs. Graves for the superb photography. And a big thanks to all the Brock Elementary Tigers! I\u2019m thrilled that you enjoyed my show and don\u2019t forget your GRR!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/brock.burlesonisd.net\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7896.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN7896\" width=\"500\" height=\"443\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7896.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN7896-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Today was \u201cCharacter Day\u201d at Brock Elementary in Burleson, Texas where, for once, I wasn\u2019t the biggest character in school! All the students and teachers were dressed as his or her favorite book characters so I had an interesting view from the stage to say the least. &nbsp; &nbsp; I gave three shows [&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\/2998"}],"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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}