{"id":9539,"date":"2023-09-25T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2023-09-25T08:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:22:53","slug":"new-books-for-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/2023\/09\/25\/new-books-for-children-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"New Books for Children in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance League of Bend provided 264 new books to children at the From Page to<br \/>\nScreen! Free Family Movie Night event at the Tower Theatre on September 22. Priority tickets<br \/>\nwere offered first to Silver Rail Elementary, a Title 1 school in Bend. This free event takes place<br \/>\nquarterly and is in partnership with Deschutes Public Library.<br \/>\nThanks to Assistance League of Bend\u2019s Operation School Bell \u00ae literacy initiative, families are<br \/>\nable to select age-appropriate books based on their child\u2019s grade level: K-2, 3-5 or 6-8. Studies<br \/>\nshow that encouraging children to read helps to improve their skills and promotes a lifelong<br \/>\nhabit.<br \/>\nContact Marsha Bechtold at <a href=\"mailto:OSB@assistanceleaguebend.org\">OSB@assistanceleaguebend.org<\/a> to learn more about the<br \/>\nOperation School Bell program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance League of Bend provided 264 new books to children at the From Page to Screen! Free Family Movie Night event at the Tower Theatre on September 22. Priority tickets were offered first to Silver Rail Elementary, a Title 1 school in Bend. This free event takes place quarterly and is in partnership with Deschutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":9538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,64,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-operation-school-bell","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9540,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}