{"id":6598,"date":"2020-03-06T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:59:27","slug":"lakeland-magic-dedicate-the-month-of-february-to-education-and-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/03\/06\/lakeland-magic-dedicate-the-month-of-february-to-education-and-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"LAKELAND MAGIC DEDICATE THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY TO EDUCATION AND LITERACY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;dedicated&nbsp;the month of&nbsp;February to&nbsp;education&nbsp;and literacy. The organization&nbsp;devoted&nbsp;their efforts&nbsp;to multiple&nbsp;education&nbsp;initiatives&nbsp;throughout the month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Photo-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Photo-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption> Josh Magette and Andrew Rowsey reading \u201cSwish\u2019s Magic Journey to St. Anthony\u2019s Catholic School in Lakeland <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In partnership with AdventHealth, the Lakeland Magic introduced its first children\u2019s book,&nbsp;\u201cSwish\u2019s&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;Journey\u201d, a book that chronicles how the organization\u2019s mascot, Swish, came to be. The book is part of the organization\u2019s Magic 863&nbsp;Program presented by AdventHealth. The program&nbsp;instills&nbsp;the importance of reading and literacy by encouraging children to read often and rewards students with complimentary tickets for reading for 30 minutes a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a part of their education efforts,\u00a0Lakeland\u00a0Magic players and staff\u00a0visited students to read and deliver\u00a01,000+ copies of\u00a0\u201cSwish\u2019s Magic Journey\u201d\u00a0to schools across Polk and Hillsborough County.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;also&nbsp;hosted an essay-writing contest to recognize Black History Month. Students in the Polk County area from kindergarten to twelfth grade were invited to submit their essay, titled \u201cWhat Black History Month Means to Me.\u201d The contest winners were all awarded tickets to the&nbsp;Black History Celebration game on February 1&nbsp;and&nbsp;honored at halftime.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Lakeland&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;dedicated&nbsp;the month of&nbsp;February to&nbsp;education&nbsp;and literacy. The organization&nbsp;devoted&nbsp;their efforts&nbsp;to multiple&nbsp;education&nbsp;initiatives&nbsp;throughout the month.&nbsp; In partnership with AdventHealth, the Lakeland Magic introduced its first children\u2019s book,&nbsp;\u201cSwish\u2019s&nbsp;Magic&nbsp;Journey\u201d, a book that chronicles how the organization\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakeland-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}