{"id":833,"date":"2015-08-18T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=833"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:07:09","slug":"08_18_2015_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/08_18_2015_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Alert: Maryland Summer Readers To Be Honored By The Baltimore Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Reading to be Celebrated on the Field at Camden Yards<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles this week will recognize top Maryland summer readers in a special celebration prior to a big league game.<\/p>\n<p>Several children\u2014representing the nearly 200,000 involved in the Maryland Public Library Summer Reading Program for 2015\u2014will take the field before the first pitch of Thursday night\u2019s game against the Minnesota Twins.\u00a0 Maryland Assistant State Superintendent for Library Development and Services Irene Padilla will take part in the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Participants registered at their local public libraries, read books, and participated in classes and workshops.\u00a0 Just as important, the children had fun while learning.\u00a0 The Orioles supported the summer reading program by donating 5,000 tickets to Maryland Public Library Branches.<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland Public Library Summer Reading Program is a cooperative project of local public libraries in all 23 Maryland counties and Baltimore City, the Maryland State Department of Education\u2019s Division of Library Development and Services, and the national Collaborative Summer Library Program. \u00a0The State program is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Assistant State Superintendent Irene Padilla<br \/>\nChildren involved in the Maryland Public Library Summer Reading Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Prior to the Game\u2019s 7:05 p.m. Start Time<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, August 20<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Oriole Park at Camden Yards<br \/>\n333 W. Camden Street<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD 21201<br \/>\n(410) 685-9800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading to be Celebrated on the Field at Camden Yards<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: Bill Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nThe Baltimore Orioles this week will recognize <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/08_18_2015_a\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediaalert","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}