{"id":2187,"date":"2021-12-19T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.fm1.dev\/enroll-children-birth-to-age-5-in-ohio-governors-imagination-library\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:19:24","slug":"enroll-children-birth-to-age-5-in-ohio-governors-imagination-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/enroll-children-birth-to-age-5-in-ohio-governors-imagination-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Enroll children birth to age 5 in Ohio Governor\u2019s Imagination Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/ohioimaginationlibrary.org\/enroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to enroll your children birth to age 5 in Ohio Governor\u2019s Imagination Library.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine first fell in love with Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library when she saw its impact on some very special little ones: <em>her grandchildren<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MAB_4004.jpg\" alt=\"Ohio Imagination Library\"><br \/>\nOhio First Lady, Fran DeWine, reading to young children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was visiting my daughter and grandchildren and got to see their Imagination Library books arrive in the mail,\u201d recalls Mrs. DeWine. \u201cThe kids were so excited, immediately saying, \u2018Grandma, read me the book! Read me the book!\u2019 That introduced me to the program, which at the time, was only in a few Ohio counties.\u201d She was so taken with the program that she visited the Greene County Public Library to find out how it worked. \u201cI thought, if we can do this in Greene County, we can do this in other places too. I want every child in Ohio to have access to these books and to have the advantages literacy brings,\u201d says Mrs. DeWine.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. DeWine saw the impact these books were having on her own family and their community and wanted every child across Ohio to have that same opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Governor\u2019s Imagination Library was founded in 2019 with financial support from the Ohio General Assembly and affiliates across the state. The program was initially only available in several counties, but became a statewide program by November 2020. All kids between birth and age 5, regardless of where they live in Ohio, are eligible to be enrolled in the Ohio Governor\u2019s Imagination Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to enroll your children birth to age 5 in Ohio Governor\u2019s Imagination Library. Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine first fell in love with Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library when she saw its impact on some very special little ones: her grandchildren. Ohio First Lady, Fran DeWine, reading to young children. \u201cI was visiting my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Ohio Governor's Imagination Library promotes literacy in children birth to age 5 in collaboration with Dolly Parton\u2019s Imagination Library.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,20,24,30,26,27,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-children","category-early-development","category-how-you-can-help","category-news","category-occupational-therapy","category-signing","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hearingspeechdeaf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}