{"id":315,"date":"2022-11-04T20:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:38:14","slug":"carpe-diem-starts-braille-book-collection-at-sequoyah-regional-library-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Carpe Diem Starts Braille Book Collection at Sequoyah Regional Library<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_3758-1024x864.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-306\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>In celebration of Literacy month, Carpe Diem Rotarians gathered Braille books to donate to the Sequoyah Regional Library.\u00a0 Members of their sponsor club, Canton Rotary, even joined in on this exciting project.\u00a0 Carpe Diem members are especially proud of this project, as it is the start of the Braille book collection for the library, and look forward to adding many more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The digital age has made reading much easier. However, turning the pages of a book is still very much enjoyed.\u00a0 This was the message a vision-impaired high school student delivered to Rotarians during a Rotary meeting.\u00a0 The high school student said that his school had little to no Braille books available and the push was to move to an exclusively digital format.\u00a0 But, when you go to the park or beach, you don&#8217;t always want to be responsible for an electronic device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rotarians were inspired and took action!&nbsp; Donated books included:&nbsp;<em>Ender&#8217;s Game, The Giver, The Outsiders, Magic Treehouse Civil War on Sunday, Magic Treehouse Vacation Under the Volcano, Jokes for the Whole Family, Animals &#8211; Knowledge You Can TOuch, Exceptionally Special &#8211; I&#8217;m Blind!, It Can&#8217;t Be True &#8211; Incredible Tactile Comparisons, Michelle Obama &#8211; An American Story, and Charlie &amp; the Chocolate Factory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carpe Diem is looking forward to continuing to build the collection and is thankful to all those who donated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Literacy month, Carpe Diem Rotarians gathered Braille books to donate to the Sequoyah Regional Library.\u00a0 Members of their sponsor club, Canton Rotary, even joined in on this exciting project.\u00a0 Carpe Diem members are especially proud of this project, as it is the start of the Braille book collection for the library, and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/?p=315\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><strong>Carpe Diem Starts Braille Book Collection at Sequoyah Regional Library<\/strong><\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpediemrotary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}