{"id":30639,"date":"1999-01-15T10:10:11","date_gmt":"1999-01-15T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30639"},"modified":"2023-01-06T13:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:16:24","slug":"mlk99-read-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/01\/15\/mlk99-read-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates and Lewiston-Auburn colleges to sponsor Martin Luther King Jr. &quot;read-in&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Bates College Center for Service-Learning and Lewiston-Auburn College will co-sponsor a &#8220;read-in&#8221; by faculty, staff and students for grades 2-6 at 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Longley Elementary School on Birch Street in Lewiston. In case school is cancelled due to snow, the read-in will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Readers from Bates and Lewiston-Auburn College will read in celebration of diversity in a community school, according to Kendra Aiello of the Bates Center for Service-Learning. Readers will read one-on-one to students for approximately 30 minutes and then distribute the books, each with a multicultural theme, to every child as memento of the day.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please call Phyllis Graber Jensen at the Bates College Office of Communications and Media Relations at 207-786-6330.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Bates College Center for Service-Learning and Lewiston-Auburn College will co-sponsor a &#8220;read-in&#8221; by faculty, staff and students for grades 2-6 at 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, at the Longley Elementary School on Birch Street in Lewiston. In case school is cancelled due to snow, the read-in will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30,130,39,31],"tags":[10830,5709,10897],"class_list":["post-30639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-collaboration","category-event-highlights","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-mlk-day-read-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92455,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions\/92455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}