{"id":4679,"date":"2018-09-24T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2018-09-25T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:41:35","slug":"first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=4679","title":{"rendered":"First Day of School!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nes.usd309ks.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0671.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0671-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMy first day back in school was in not one, but two schools sharing the day! This morning, I hung out with the fun students of <a href=\"https:\/\/nes.usd309ks.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nickerson Elementary<\/a> in, where else but Nickerson, Kansas!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0676.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0676.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0676-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0676-768x283.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe had two exciting shows in the gym and then I signed some books for the school library AND three lucky winners! I don&#8217;t know who you are yet, but congratulations! I hope you enjoy my books!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shes.usd309ks.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"559\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0698.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0698-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter lunch with some of the faculty, I zipped over to <a href=\"https:\/\/shes.usd309ks.org\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Hutchinson Elementary<\/a> in, none other than South Hutchinson, Kansas! I signed some books for <em>their<\/em> library and three more future prize winners. Then two more rip-roaring shows in their gym!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0709.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"129\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0709.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0709-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0709-768x199.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI had a great time at both schools but was particularly pleased to sign a book for Marshal (with one L, as he&#8217;ll tell you) and four books for Hardy Boys mega-fan, Landry. I hope you enjoy your books, guys!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shes.usd309ks.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0692.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"464\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0692.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0692-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Mrs. Hawver for inviting me out and for all the help! And a big thanks to the young readers and writers at Nickerson and South Hutchinson. It was an amazing way to start off the new school year&#8212;two schools in one day!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shes.usd309ks.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0714.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_0714-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; My first day back in school was in not one, but two schools sharing the day! This morning, I hung out with the fun students of Nickerson Elementary in, where else but Nickerson, Kansas! &nbsp; &nbsp; We had two exciting shows in the gym and then I signed some books for the school [&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\/4679"}],"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=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}