{"id":1881,"date":"2026-06-14T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:04:16","slug":"author-reading-at-juneteenth-festival-june-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Author Reading at Juneteenth Festival &#8211; June 13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Juneteenth-author-reading-june-2026b.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1890\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had the honor of serving as a guest author for a children&#8217;s read aloud at a Juneteenth Festival on June 13, 2026. This lively and well-attended event was sponsored by the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center, located in my home town of Centreville, MD. I read my first book, <strong><em>Jamal and Me<\/em><\/strong> aloud and answered questions posed by both children and adults. It was a pleasure to be part of this annual event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the honor of serving as a guest author for a children&#8217;s read aloud at a Juneteenth Festival on June 13, 2026. This lively and well-attended event was sponsored by the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center, located in my home town of Centreville, MD. I read my first book, Jamal and Me aloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolfranksrandall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}