{"id":3357,"date":"2015-03-13T21:24:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2015-03-13T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:24:27","slug":"schools-celebrate-read-across-america-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=3357","title":{"rendered":"Schools Celebrate Read Across America Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3358\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3358\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3358\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16679425806_ac92aed13e_k.jpg\" alt=\"Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz (top, in tie) read at Rancho Verde Elementary students.\" width=\"600\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16679425806_ac92aed13e_k.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16679425806_ac92aed13e_k-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16679425806_ac92aed13e_k-405x209.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz (top, in tie) read at Rancho Verde Elementary students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Theodor Seuss Giesel was born March 2, 1904, but most students do not recognize his real name.<\/p>\n<p>They do know the name Dr. Seuss, which Gisele commonly went by, as schools across the country remembered his birthday with Read Across America Week March 2-6 and the rest of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Guest readers were invited to wear the familiar Dr. Seuss hat with red and white stripes to students who would listen to their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz was one of the guest readers, and sat with a plop to tell the story of \u201cThe Lorax\u201d to students in the after-school program at Rancho Verde Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Other guest readers included school district administrators who read stories such as \u201cCat in the Hat,\u201d \u201cHorton Hears a Who!\u201d and \u201cGreen Eggs and Ham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students at Liberty Memorial Middle School performed a skit of multiple Dr. Seuss stories to the entire student body. The star of the show was a student dressed as The Lorax, who shared his story.<\/p>\n<p>Read Across America expects more than 45 million readers throughout the country both young and old to pick up a book and read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodor Seuss Giesel was born March 2, 1904, but most students do not recognize his real name. They do know the name Dr. Seuss, which Gisele commonly went by, as schools across the country remembered his birthday with Read Across America Week March 2-6 and the rest of the month. Guest readers were invited to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}