{"id":9358,"date":"2024-02-16T02:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2024-02-21T20:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:11:59","slug":"my-one-and-only-canadian-school-during-wrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/my-one-and-only-canadian-school-during-wrad\/","title":{"rendered":"My one and only Canadian school during WRAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Eleven of my twelve World-Read-Aloud-Day donated virtual visits were claimed by American schools, but one I gave to Melita School in Manitoba, and it came about when two grade 8 students, Chaz and Zander, were doing a project on one of my books and asked to meet with me virtually. Normally, I would have had to say no, but World Read Aloud Day was coming up, so I suggested we meet on that day, with their whole class. It was a wonderful visit with Ms Anderson and her students! Here are some pics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" class=\"wp-image-9361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3-1200x901.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita3.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" class=\"wp-image-9359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-1024x769.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-1024x769.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-1536x1153.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1-1200x901.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/melita1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven of my twelve World-Read-Aloud-Day donated virtual visits were claimed by American schools, but one I gave to Melita School in Manitoba, and it came about when two grade 8 students, Chaz and Zander, were doing a project on one of my books and asked to meet with me virtually. Normally, I would have had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/my-one-and-only-canadian-school-during-wrad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My one and only Canadian school during WRAD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[848,233,847,353,605,609,530],"class_list":["post-9358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-chaz-and-zander","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-melita-school","tag-scholastic","tag-ukraine-war","tag-winterkill","tag-wrad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9371,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}