{"id":746,"date":"2025-10-10T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:07:56","slug":"the-wonderful-elks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"THE WONDERFUL ELKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday I stopped by my local library, and as the staff and I chatted about my book, the director asked me if I knew about the Community Baby Shower sponsored by The Elks. Here&#8217;s what they write about it on their website:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Access to books is an important factor in children\u2019s literacy, yet in many of the same low-income areas where diaper need is high, so is the need for books. One study shows that in low-income communities, there is an average of one book per 300 children. This is in stark contrast to middle-income communities, where, on average, there are thirteen books in a single home.&#8221; (https:\/\/www.elks.org\/SharedElksOrg\/enf\/files\/CommunityBabyShower.pdf)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Elk&#8217;s Community Baby Shower in my area is in early November, and my wonderful library is going to buy several of my books to donate to them. I told them I&#8217;d match whatever they donate and would also volunteer for the event to do story time or sign copies or whatever they need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve only got two weeks to go on my Kickstarter Campaign, so if you&#8217;re thinking about it, and if you&#8217;re able, I&#8217;d love your support. Stay tuned for a video of me reading &#8220;What Do Toes Do?&#8221; to my two dogs!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELK.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-747\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELK-300x212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELK-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELK-768x541.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ELK.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I stopped by my local library, and as the staff and I chatted about my book, the director asked me if I knew about the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}