{"id":6036,"date":"2025-11-11T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:11:08","slug":"back-at-mittelstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"Back at Mittelst\u00e4dt!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"978\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713-978x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713-978x1024.jpg 978w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713-768x804.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1713.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Day two was a fun return to <a href=\"https:\/\/mittelstadt.kleinisd.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mittelst\u00e4dt Elementary<\/a> &#8212; home of the Patriots! Coincidently, my elementary school mascot was also the Patriot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1788.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"571\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1788.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1788.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1788-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1788-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had visited Mittelst\u00e4dt Elementary in 2018 where I got to meet those group of Patriots and Max, the library rabbit! Thank you, Evelyn for creating the welcome screen, including the photo of Max and me from my last Mittelst\u00e4dt post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1744.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1744.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1744.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1744-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1744-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After two exciting presentations, I signed some books and hung out with some energetic young readers: Ethan, Evelyn, Isabella, Maddox, Sam, Stanley, and Wyatt. They were great fun and had some insightful questions and creative story ideas. They even had the marketing campaign all laid out for my next book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1790-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1790-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1790-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1790-2-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1790-2-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Mrs. Sestak for inviting me. Thanks to Mr. Rivera, Mrs. Banasiak, and Mr. Hanson for the tech support. By the way, I heard great things about Mr. Hanson&#8217;s reading of <em>The Book with no Pictures.<\/em> Thanks to Mrs. Sestak and Mrs. Ledbetter for the delightful lunch. And the biggest thanks of all to the Mittelst\u00e4dt Patriots. From one Patriot to another, keep reading and keep coming up with those awesome stories!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2-762x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_1796-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day two was a fun return to Mittelst\u00e4dt Elementary &#8212; home of the Patriots! Coincidently, my elementary school mascot was also the Patriot. I had visited Mittelst\u00e4dt Elementary in 2018 where I got to meet those group of Patriots and Max, the library rabbit! Thank you, Evelyn for creating the welcome screen, including the photo [&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\/6036"}],"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=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6046,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}