{"id":27827,"date":"2021-02-10T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/?p=27827"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:45:58","slug":"bapl-partners-with-lehigh-valley-reads-for-the-million-minute-challenge-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/bapl-partners-with-lehigh-valley-reads-for-the-million-minute-challenge-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"BAPL Partners with Lehigh Valley Reads for the Million Minute Challenge in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"small-12 large-6 cell\">\n<p>The Bethlehem Area Public Library is proud to partner with Lehigh Valley Reads for its Million Minute Challenge beginning in March.\u00a0 And no, you do NOT have to read a million minutes (because that would take, like a REALLY long time)! But you CAN help us build a community of readers to make the Lehigh Valley a place of opportunity for all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s free, easy to join and all ages can participate. Gather friends, family and peers to read one million minutes with you. You can read anywhere &#8211; on lunch breaks, in waiting rooms, before you fall asleep or when you\u2019ve finished your homework. And, you can read anything &#8211; comic books, poems, novels or online articles.<\/p>\n<p>How to participate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Register yourself, your office, your book club, or as a whole family on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/youth-services\/\">Million Minute Challenge<\/a> link on our Youth Services home page or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleyreads.org\/million\">Lehigh Valley Reads<\/a> .<\/li>\n<li>Hold a friendly competition between your coworkers, friends or classmates to see who can read the most minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Visit BAPL online or in person to find awesome books to read for the challenge!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LVReads is an initiative of both the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Lehigh Valley Public Media, home of PBS39.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 large-6 cell\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27792 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bapl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/million-300x297.png?resize=151%2C149&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 large-6 cell\">\n<div class=\"responsive-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bethlehem Area Public Library is proud to partner with Lehigh Valley Reads for its Million Minute Challenge beginning in March.\u00a0 And no, you do NOT have to read a million minutes (because that would take, like a REALLY long time)! But you CAN help us build a community of readers to make the Lehigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","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":[38,5630,1975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bapl-news","category-community","category-special-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVu5I-7eP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27838,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions\/27838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}