{"id":483,"date":"2016-11-10T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=483"},"modified":"2016-11-11T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T03:59:10","slug":"134-1000-books-before-kindergarten-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"134. 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten Spokesperson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on TV!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, I was holding a kick-off for the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, and our local station, Channel 16, wanted to do a feature, since it&#8217;s a new initiative for the library system.<\/p>\n<p>I was nervous about it.\u00a0 I was making up the program.\u00a0 I thought I&#8217;d read a couple books, then sign the parents up while the others read to their kids or the kids played with toys.\u00a0 But I wasn&#8217;t absolutely sure that was going to work.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I was reading in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\"><em>Champagne for the Soul<\/em><\/a>, by Mike Mason, and I read the sentence, &#8220;What are you allowing to get between you and your joy?&#8221; I immediately thought how I was stressed out about the program the next day.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, Why not just enjoy it?\u00a0 Why should I be stressed?\u00a0 I know it won&#8217;t go perfectly smoothly, and I know I will stumble over my words in spots or think of better things I could have said.\u00a0 And I am truly excited about this program, encouraging parents to read with their kids.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s not a stretch at all to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t realize &#8212; I&#8217;d have a professional editor preparing the clip.\u00a0 Yes, I stumbled over my words.\u00a0 Yes, it took several times of them asking me questions.\u00a0 But in the finished version, all that&#8217;s taken out, and it sounds like I know what I&#8217;m talking about!\u00a0 Best of all, they did a great job filming the kids and parents in the program more than filming me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy with how this turned out, and so happy to be a spokesperson for such a great program!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lTRv6uPtBrM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on TV! On Monday, I was holding a kick-off for the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, and our local station, Channel 16, wanted to do a feature, since it&#8217;s a new initiative for the library system. I was nervous about it.\u00a0 I was making up the program.\u00a0 I thought I&#8217;d read a couple books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}