{"id":388,"date":"2011-10-07T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-10-10T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T19:18:16","slug":"ending-at-esparza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"Ending at Esparza!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nisd.net\/esparza\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN0536.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0536\" width=\"497\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN0536.jpg 497w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSCN0536-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI finished my brief San Antonio tour at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nisd.net\/esparza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esparza Accelerated Elementary<\/a>! It was Author Day at Esparza Elementary and I discovered that I was in good company indeed. Not only did the students get to see my live presentation but also two video conferences by authors <a href=\"http:\/\/rlstine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">R.L. Stine<\/a>, of Goosebumps fame, and the author of all the wonderful Hank the Cowdog books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hankthecowdog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Erickson<\/a>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLittle known fact: when I was a Wishbone author, Big Red Chair Books almost set up a Wishbone\/Hank crossover book but it never happened. Too bad, that would have been a lot of fun to write!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Dani&#8217;el Mason for inviting me. Thanks to Coaches Wilder and Gutierrez for all their help. And a big thanks to all the Esparza Eagles for the warm welcome for author day. Hopefully, being around all us authors all day inspired some of you to become authors yourselves!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I finished my brief San Antonio tour at Esparza Accelerated Elementary! It was Author Day at Esparza Elementary and I discovered that I was in good company indeed. Not only did the students get to see my live presentation but also two video conferences by authors R.L. Stine, of Goosebumps fame, and the [&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\/388"}],"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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}