{"id":379278,"date":"2010-03-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/read_across_america_day"},"modified":"2010-03-02T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:33:44","slug":"read-across-america-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379278","title":{"rendered":"Read Across America Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 12px 12px 0px\" height=\"336\" alt=\"Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat with text reading &quot;Read Across America Day, an NEA Project&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/Seuss1.jpg\" width=\"272\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>What\u2019s your favorite <a title=\"Dr. Seuss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/assets\/docs\/DrSeussBio.pdf\">Dr. Seuss<\/a> book?&nbsp; I love <i>The Cat in the Hat<\/i> with its moss-covered three-handled family gredunza. I love to recite the \u201cTweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle\u201d in <i>Fox in Socks<\/i> just as fast as I can. <i>The Lorax<\/i>, <i>The Sneeches<\/i>, <i>Green Eggs and Ham<\/i>\u2026I could go on and on.<\/p>\n<p>Reading children\u2019s books is a fun part of having kids, and today is <a title=\"Read Across America Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm\">Read Across America Day<\/a>. Read Across America, sponsored by the <a title=\"National Education Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/\">National Education Association<\/a>, is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children&#8217;s author <a title=\"Dr. Seuss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/assets\/docs\/DrSeussBio.pdf\">Dr. Seuss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research is clear: children who are read to, and who read for pleasure, are more successful in school than children who do not. Reading is a wonderful way to spend fun time with any child, and reading gives a child the gift of lifetime learning. So get in touch with your favorite children&#8217;s books of the past and discover some new treasures with a child. <a title=\"Read\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pueblo.gsa.gov\/cic_text\/family\/lpartner\/read.htm\">Read<\/a> to a kid today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s your favorite Dr. Seuss book?&nbsp; I love The Cat in the Hat with its moss-covered three-handled family gredunza. I love to recite the \u201cTweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle\u201d in Fox in Socks just as fast as I can. The Lorax, The Sneeches, Green Eggs and Ham\u2026I could go on and on. Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}