{"id":2154,"date":"2010-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/08\/19\/delta-states-delta-center-continues-to-distribute-books-to-promote-literacy\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:41","slug":"delta-states-delta-center-continues-to-distribute-books-to-promote-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2010\/08\/delta-states-delta-center-continues-to-distribute-books-to-promote-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State&#8217;s Delta Center continues to distribute books to promote literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"205\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Bright Beginnings: From left-right, Beverly McWilliams, with Bright Beginnings and librarian at Parks Elementary, Robert Smart, Rosedale Elementary, and Lee Aylward, Delta State Delta Center for Culture and Learning.\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2010Releases\/Bright Beginnings books.JPG\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"205\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Delta State Child Development Center: From left-right, Brenda Dumas, teacher, Samantha Blake, Sherrod Cauthen, Kate McClain, Cash Miller, and Elizabeth Gray Havens students in the four year-old class look over some of the donated books.\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2010Releases\/DSU Child Development Center books.JPG\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning continues to distribute books that have been collected by the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA), an international group of volunteers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s recipients included Parks Elementary School in Cleveland and the Rosedale Elementary School, as well as students in the Delta State Child Development Center.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Harry Potter Alliance was founded by Andrew Slack, who first came to the Delta as a students from Brandeis University and was introduced to the Delta&#8217;s heritage by the Delta Center for Culture and learning.&nbsp; HPA was recently awarded $250,000 by the Chase Bank Community Giving Challenge, and online competition that selected the most popular new charity organization.&nbsp;The money will allow them to build further capacity to do good deeds around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning continues to distribute books&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41398,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/41398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}