{"id":1151,"date":"2018-12-31T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:55:34","slug":"12-3-17-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"12.3.17 News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"u328408-7\"><span id=\"u328412\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laredolibrary.org\/BookFestival\/about.html\" id=\"u328413\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithLargeImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readableLargeImageContainer float\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/laredo%20book%20festival%202017_graphic%20sm.jpg\"  id=\"u328413_img\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/span>7th Annual Laredo Book Festival coming up Dec. 9<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u328408-19\"><span>The 7th Annual Laredo Book Festival<\/span> will feature <span>Matt de la Pe\u00f1a,<\/span> a New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal\u2013winning author of six young adult novels (<span>Mexican WhiteBoy, The Living and The Hunted<\/span>) and two picture books (<span>A Nation\u2019s Hope<\/span> and <span>Last Stop on Market Street)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u328408-22\">Sponsored by the Laredo Public Library and the Friends of the Laredo Public Library, the event will take place at the Joe A. Guerra\/Laredo Public Library at 1120 E. Calton Road on Saturday, Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u328408-29\">Other featured authors include <span>Patty York Raymond, Christina Sendejo,<\/span> and <span>Mario E. Martinez.<\/span> In addition, all local authors and illustrators are invited to participate as well. There will also be food trucks and vendors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u328408-35\">For more information, visit <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laredolibrary.org\/BookFestival\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"u328408-32\">www.laredolibrary.org\/BookFestival\/about.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u328408-39\">(<span id=\"u328408-38\">Compiled from Laredo Public Library and book festival social media)<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u328408-42\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7th Annual Laredo Book Festival coming up Dec. 9 The 7th Annual Laredo Book Festival will feature Matt de la Pe\u00f1a, a New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal\u2013winning author of six young adult novels (Mexican WhiteBoy, The Living and The Hunted) and two picture books (A Nation\u2019s Hope and Last Stop on Market Street). Sponsored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}