{"id":1807,"date":"2015-10-26T16:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:56:59","slug":"dear-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2015\/10\/26\/dear-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAR Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"en-US\">October 26, 2015 is the 9<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> anniversary of the BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) challenge. Dear started as a small challenge between school libraries in 2007 and has since grown to involve many participants across the province. The simple, but powerful idea of DEAR is to promote the importance of literacy by having as many students and adults as possible read at the same time on the same day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today we celebrated DEAR by reading after lunch for 20 minutes. \u00a0Everyone dropped everything and brought their books to the hallways, classrooms, the library and more. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1829\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/files\/2015\/10\/image7.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">The goal for October 26, 2015 is to have EVERYONE in BC put down their work, turn off their computer screens, pick up a book, magazine or newspaper and read for 20 minutes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">Reading is a beautiful thing! <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 26, 2015 is the 9th anniversary of the BC Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) challenge. Dear started as a small challenge between school libraries in 2007 and has since grown to involve many participants across the province. The simple, but powerful idea of DEAR is to promote the importance of literacy by having as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/2015\/10\/26\/dear-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DEAR Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,44,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/southslope-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}