{"id":6036,"date":"2017-05-23T12:41:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T00:48:43","slug":"join-us-on-facebook-for-a-reading-by-childrens-author-tony-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/join-us-on-facebook-for-a-reading-by-childrens-author-tony-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us on Facebook for a reading by children&#8217;s author Tony Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/NSS-2017-Social-Media-Tile_0.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6037\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/NSS-2017-Social-Media-Tile_0-280x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/NSS-2017-Social-Media-Tile_0-280x280.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/NSS-2017-Social-Media-Tile_0-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/NSS-2017-Social-Media-Tile_0.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) will be treated to a live reading of <em>The Cow Tripped Over the Moon<\/em> by children\u2019s author Tony Wilson, as part of tomorrow\u2019s National Simlutaneous Storytime event.<\/p>\n<p>The reading will be broadcast live via the RCH Facebook page at 11am on May 24, as well as pre-recorded for sharing with other children\u2019s hospitals around the country. The live broadcast will also be streamed to RCH patient rooms, so patients who are too unwell to attend the event can still tune in and participate in the fun from their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0year, National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual campaign that aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books.\u00a0Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an\u00a0Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously around the country, with this year&#8217;s official launch reading taking place at the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>To read more or register to participate in National Simultaneous Storytime,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alia.org.au\/nss\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And remember to tune\u00a0in for the live reading of <em>The Cow Tripped Over the Moon<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rchmelbourne\/\">RCH Facebook page<\/a> at 11am, tomorrow May 24!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony will read his book, The Cow Tripped Over the Moon on May 24 at 11am, which will be broadcast live on our Facebook page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}