{"id":160,"date":"2008-01-14T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2008\/01\/14\/0114-the-big-reads-big-kick-off\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T21:49:47","slug":"0114-the-big-reads-big-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2008\/01\/14\/0114-the-big-reads-big-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Read&#8217;s Big Kick-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the balloons were bought and the were cakes cut in honor of this year&#8217;s <strong>Big Read<\/strong>. Libraries across Birmingham have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventkeeper.com\/code\/events.cfm?curOrg=JCLC&amp;curKey2=The%20Big%20Read&amp;curMonth=PASTTOO&amp;setRef=new\">activities planned all day<\/a> to help build awareness and participation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectmockingbird.org\/\">Project Mockingbird<\/a>, which is the library systems push to get all of Jefferson County reading Harper Lee&#8217;s classic <em>To Kill A Mockingbird.<\/em> Think of it as &#8220;one county, one book&#8221; kind of a reading plan.<\/p>\n<p>Events and features are planned all the way through this summer. Including a &#8220;Read it Forward&#8221; program where 1,500 copies of <em>To Kill A Mockingbird<\/em> will randomly be placed around the county, for people to stumble upon read and pass on.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectmockingbird.org\/\">keep up with the project here<\/a>, and download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectmockingbird.org\/multimedia.html\">free gfx, wallpaper and podcasts here<\/a>. If you are wondering where the nearest launch party is today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventkeeper.com\/code\/events.cfm?curOrg=JCLC&amp;curKey2=The%20Big%20Read&amp;curMonth=PASTTOO&amp;setRef=new\">check out the JCLC&#8217;s calendar page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">{trav blogs regularly at  <a href=\"http:\/\/headsubhead.com\/\">{head}:sub\/head<\/a>, about reading, publishing, books and Birmingham.}<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2008\/01\/14\/0114-the-big-reads-big-kick-off\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Today, the balloons were bought and the were cakes cut in honor of this year&#8217;s Big Read. Libraries across Birmingham have activities planned all day to help build awareness and participation in Project Mockingbird, which is the library systems push &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2008\/01\/14\/0114-the-big-reads-big-kick-off\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,17,19,34],"tags":[195,1027,691,705,907],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-books","category-citywide","category-literary","tag-book","tag-books","tag-project-mockingbird","tag-reading","tag-to-kill-a-mockingbird"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-2A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}