{"id":4777,"date":"2021-02-02T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:57:56","slug":"actionweek-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/2021\/02\/02\/actionweek-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Action!Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paragon Mills Elementary School holds a &#8220;Read Across America\u201d celebration every year and Assistance League\u00ae of Nashville is always there to help.<\/p>\n<p>This year Governor Bill Lee, his wife Maria Lee, many Metro Nashville Police Officers and Davidson County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies, and other charities joined in the drive-thru book parade held on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 4:30 &#8211; 6 p.m. at Paragon Mills Elementary School in Nashville.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thing 1 and Thing 2 were there making mischief along with at least 20 \u201cCats in the Hat&#8221; giving books to the children. The Book Parade was a huge success! So many books getting into the hands of children, a worthwhile and heartwarming afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/\">National Education Association<\/a>\u00a0(NEA)\u2019s Read Across America is the nation\u2019s largest celebration of reading. This year-round program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources that are about everyone, for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance League\u00ae\u00a0of Nashville volunteers are transforming the lives of children through community programs in the Nashville area. Our goal is to improve children\u2019s self-esteem and academic success while reducing family stress. Our signature program Operation School Bell\u00ae provides new standard school attire, new warm coats, and books to children in need. 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This year Governor Bill Lee, his wife Maria Lee, many Metro Nashville Police Officers and Davidson County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies, and other charities joined in the drive-thru book parade held on Tuesday, March 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20917,"featured_media":4783,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/nashville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}