{"id":485,"date":"2014-11-14T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:42:11","slug":"read-all-day-sign-me-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Read All Day? Sign Me Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard word in my inbox of a new upcoming event for all of us voracious readers. In case MotherReader&#8217;s 48-Hour Book Challenge isn&#8217;t enough for you&#8211;or if, like me, it&#8217;s sometimes too much&#8211;maybe this will suit: Penguin Random House, the National Book Foundation, GoodReads, and Mashable are teaming up for <a href=\"http:\/\/global.penguinrandomhouse.com\/readathon\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Readathon Day<\/a>, a brand-new collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The date in question is Saturday, January 24th, 2015, from Noon-4pm. Kind of like a walkathon, participants in the Readathon sign up for their own fundraising page on FirstGiving, and the money donated helps the National Book Foundation promote reading and literacy in America. <\/p>\n<p>I may be terrible at setting aside a weekend to read (much as I&#8217;d like to), but even *I* can surely manage four hours for a good cause. If I can do it, so can you! You can even organize a fundraising team or a &#8220;reading party&#8221; (sounds like my kind of party). I&#8217;m kind of wishing we could do something as a Kidlitosphere group, but I&#8217;m not sure how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard word in my inbox of a new upcoming event for all of us voracious readers. In case MotherReader&#8217;s 48-Hour Book Challenge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,60,18,78,10],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-happenings","tag-literary-life-observations","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}