{"id":183867,"date":"2025-08-29T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183867\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:17:14","slug":"free-books-program-ending-in-genesee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183867\/","title":{"rendered":"Free books program ending in Genesee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A beloved program providing free books to children is coming to an end in Genesee County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Dolly Parton Imagination Library will be paused indefinitely starting September 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flintandgeneseeliteracy\/posts\/pfbid0QLBw7G3uHUVDYfjA4TZ4shXuzpbZVqfdMxTBVykbvzPEKsm9QrGzJiTiFuVenxRdl\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flintandgeneseeliteracy\/posts\/pfbid0QLBw7G3uHUVDYfjA4TZ4shXuzpbZVqfdMxTBVykbvzPEKsm9QrGzJiTiFuVenxRdl\">Flint and Genesee Literacy Network said<\/a> it\u2019s due to federal funding ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The literacy network said the program placed more than 300,000 books into the hands of almost 2,000 children across the county since its launch in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Families will continue receiving books through the end of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The literacy network said those who want to help should reach out to their local, state and federal lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WNEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A beloved program providing free books to children is coming to an end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,1577,171,1762,3723,1764,21220,3716,35965,6215,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-183867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-flint","tag-free","tag-genesee-county","tag-imagination-library","tag-library","tag-literacy","tag-reading","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115110126839173062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867","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=183867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}