  {"id":112393,"date":"2020-03-05T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=112393"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T23:36:41","slug":"vulcans-share-dr-seuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/vulcans-share-dr-seuss\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo student-athletes share Dr. Seuss with keiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_112392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112392\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hilo-athletics-read.jpg\" alt=\"student-athletes with doctor seuss books and hats\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hilo-athletics-read.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hilo-athletics-read-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/hilo-athletics-read-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student-athletes from nine Vulcan teams read to neary 2,700 keiki in honor of Dr. Seuss&#8217; birthday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the fifth straight year, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo student-athletes<\/a> and local keiki enjoyed the readings of the late <abbr title=\"Doctor\">Dr.<\/abbr> Seuss together on Read Across America Day, an annual celebration of <abbr title=\"Doctor\">Dr.<\/abbr> Seuss&#8217; birthday on March 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan teams visited nearly 2,700 elementary students from <span aria-label=\"Haaheo,\">Ha&#699;aheo,<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Keaau,\">Kea&#699;au,<\/span> Keaukaha, Wai&#257;kea, <span aria-label=\"KaUmana\">Ka&#699;&#363;mana<\/span> and Hilo Union. Vulcan teams that participated include the women&#8217;s cross country, men\u2019s and women\u2019s soccer and basketball, volleyball, tennis, golf and baseball. Due to a doubleheader on the same day, the softball team could not be involved in the reading event.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you to our student-athletes and coaches for their continued support of our local keiki and schools,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo Athletic Director <strong>Patrick Guillen<\/strong>. &ldquo;I am happy to say this annually that this is one of my favorite days of the year. This has grown from reading to 1,800 children in our first year doing this in 2016 to almost 2,700 last year. It&#8217;s a big part of who we are in reaching out and connecting with our local youth and the community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiloathletics.com\/news\/2020\/3\/2\/general-vulcans-and-local-keiki-enjoy-dr-seuss-together.aspx\">For more, go to the Hilo Athletics website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vulcan teams participated in Read Across America for the fifth year in a row, reading to elementary students from <span aria-label=\"Keaau\">Kea&#699;au<\/span> to Keaukaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[58,714,14,151],"class_list":["post-112393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-student-athlete","tag-uh-hilo","tag-hilo-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112393"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112479,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112393\/revisions\/112479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}