{"id":154218,"date":"2025-08-17T22:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154218\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:54:10","slug":"victoria-soto-foundation-holds-book-giveaway-for-teachers-impacted-by-funding-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/154218\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Soto Foundation holds book giveaway for teachers impacted by funding shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve years after Victoria Soto died protecting her students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, her legacy continues to inspire acts of kindness.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 teachers stood in line outside the Victoria Soto Foundation in Stratford Sunday to get free books for their students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With so many funding cuts and with chronic lack of money for educational needs, this book giveaway comes not a moment too soon,&#8221; said elementary school teacher Mia Gonzalez. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing and we&#8217;re so grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Soto&#8217;s brother said he&#8217;s grateful for the chance to do something that carries on his sister&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very meaningful for us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the books were all donated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve years after Victoria Soto died protecting her students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, her legacy continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,10180,171,37104,90109,90110,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-154218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-donations","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-giveaway","12":"tag-sandy-hook","13":"tag-stratford","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115046571920530719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}