{"id":868,"date":"2012-01-19T20:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T02:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-01-19T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T02:56:59","slug":"first-author-visit-of-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"First Author Visit of the New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hearne.aliefisd.net\/home.aspx?goto=home\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCN0870.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN0870\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCN0870.jpg 500w, https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCN0870-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe beginning of this semester&#8217;s round of author visits began back in Houston, TX, at <a href=\"http:\/\/hearne.aliefisd.net\/home.aspx?goto=home\" target=\"_blank\">Hearne Elementary<\/a>! I had a fun time presenting to all the wonderful Hearne students in their humungous library (I think I pulled something in my throat showing them the loud giraffe noise)!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe best part of the day was when I got to eat lunch with the top Accelerated Readers! The best readers in the school get rewarded sometimes and the most recent reward was getting to eat with a real, live author (hey, that&#8217;s me!) Thanks for the stimulating lunch conversation: Eliud, Alan, Reymon, Jimmy, Nayeli, Nicole, Jamie, Mindalia, Fernando, Oba, Janella, Wendy, Mellissa, Alexander, Juan, and Kenneth! Better yet, thanks for being such good readers!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d also like to give a shout out to super <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwishbone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wishbone<\/a> fan, Joanna Baczek (Ms. Baczek, to all you Hearne Elementary 2nd graders). Keep rooting for the little dog with the big imagination!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks to Mrs. Arevalo for inviting me and for setting up the lunch. And a big thanks to all the great students at Hearne Elementary! Keep reading and maybe you&#8217;ll get an even bigger prize next time!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The beginning of this semester&#8217;s round of author visits began back in Houston, TX, at Hearne Elementary! I had a fun time presenting to all the wonderful Hearne students in their humungous library (I think I pulled something in my throat showing them the loud giraffe noise)! &nbsp; The best part of 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\/868"}],"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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}