{"id":489294,"date":"2026-01-03T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489294\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:17:13","slug":"char-car-brings-books-to-kids-in-hospitals-schools-cool-san-diego-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489294\/","title":{"rendered":"Char Car brings books to kids in hospitals, schools! \u2013 Cool San Diego Sights!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_8910.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110156\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>I ran into these good people this morning before the start of San Diego\u2019s annual Holiday Bowl Parade. They operate the Char Car!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the Char Car? A vehicle that celebrates Pok\u00e9mon character Charmander, and that delivers books to kids, hospitals and libraries!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Elizabeth Valles is member of this smiling gang. She works at Rady Children\u2019s Hospital. That\u2019s her on the left. You might have seen her on KUSI television the other day. She was honored as KUSI Community Champion for her #ReadingonFire literacy campaigns. She and her team make the lives of children so much better, by promoting child literacy and spreading happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Char Car\u2019s Instagram page by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/charcar04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clicking here<\/a>. You can learn about their future events and perhaps even help them out!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_8915-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110159\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>To follow my blog, find the \u201cFollow\u201d box in this website\u2019s sidebar. Or bookmark <a href=\"https:\/\/coolsandiegosights.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coolsandiegosights.com<\/a> and swing on by occasionally!<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019re viewing this on a phone, open my website\u2019s sidebar by tapping those three parallel lines at the top of the page.)<\/p>\n<p>\tPublished by<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" alt=\"Unknown's avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5b2d6b6be29fc24cc958582e0d105fb06200e2ef1d83ec2347498be341cf627c.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-56\" height=\"56\" width=\"56\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRichard Schulte<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\tDowntown San Diego has been my home for many years.  My online activities reflect my love for writing, blogging, walking and photography.\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coolsandiegosights.com\/author\/walksmiles\/\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView all posts by Richard Schulte\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I ran into these good people this morning before the start of San Diego\u2019s annual Holiday Bowl Parade.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830892015785217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489294","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=489294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}